Dear Sir
Sir James Dalrymples
collections
will be most welcome. I shall be happy to
make you amends.
The criticks in the magazines of May & June pervert or mistake my meaning
strangely, confounding Muir or More the Queen
with More the mistress of Robert II.See letters by 'Vindex' and 'S.W.' in
<hi rend="italic">The Gentleman's
Magazine</hi>
, vol.
45, May 1775, pp.226-227, and June 1775, pp.264-275. The disputed passage concerns the
Stuart's ancestral claim to Bute and Arran, Pennant,
<hi rend="italic">Tour in Scotland and Voyage to
the Hebrides 1772</hi>
(Chester: 1774) p.187
. The only error I am
guilty of is giving her the name of Elizabeth whereas the name of the concubine
has escaped us. Pray does
Tarbat
, or
Hay
or anybody else give the Christian name of that
Lady. In any new edition I can alter no farther than to change that of Elizabeth
into ……. More or Moram.
Buchanans
clans
will be most acceptable. I set out on my ramble on
Friday.
I am Dear Sir with the truest regard
yrs
Tho. Pennant
Downing July 11th. 1775.