Letter received by Banks from Thomas Pennant, 10 November1778 (Series 72.130) - No. 0002

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find if we live to meet success & Head all yr pursuits.  My best compliments attend Doctor Solander.  

I  am Dear Sir
Yr obliged & affect. humble servt

Tho. Pennant

A melancholy disappointment has just befel Mrs  Blackburn & myself. We expected from Dr Pallas at Petersburg, a box of stuffed birds, & books. but by a cruel mistake when a great chest of skins destined for some furrier who I fear will meet with a worse loss.

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Its tail is short like a sent [indecipherable] say that he has seen on other specimens in which it was near 3 inches long of this the hair is quite gone & maybe a section of the flesh the teeth are gone but