My dear Pupil

with hard travelling I am got 30 miles from the place I parted with you & co enjoying one perpetual feast, glutted by meat; my stomach happily returning in the morning. Salute Haistwell, salute Gough. Tell them I am now solacing myself at full [...]ease with the comtemplation [sic] of the busts of the lovely venetia wife of Sir Kenelm Digby of fantastic memory, at Gothurst the delicious antient uninjured seat of the wrights. I sit amidst Digbies of old times stealing glances ^(at them) at intervals from my paper & wishing the company of my friends.

in y^r museum searches, enquire the monumental history of Luton Church Bedfordshire.¹ Try if you can find what religious lies at full length under a high open arch, arms encircled with the garter above, & a crest I think a the[...] arrows, but certainly a sheaf of something ^be [sic] accounts [...]

My love to my Sisters.² rememberances to Bruton street. adieu

Y^rs most faithfully

T.P.

Gothurst april 16^th 1773.

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Editorial notes

1. For another reference to this, see Pennant's letter of 27 April 1773 to Lloyd, 1370.
2. Pennant refers to his twin sisters, Catherine and Sarah.

i. In a letter to Linnaeus at Uppsala, dated 14 October 1772, Pennant mentions that he 'shall send you every book I have published[;] among others my Iter scoticum in which is much natural history'. The Linnean Society, L474, here [external link] [accessed 3 September 2019].