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Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
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Thomas and David Pennant Manuscripts,

  • GB 0210 MSPENNT
  • Fonds
  • [1500x1912] /

Papers, [1500x1912], mainly of Thomas Pennant and his son, David, and comprising accounts of tours in Britain and Europe; geographical, topographical and historical notes and transcripts, as well as notes on natural history; accounts of David Penn...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Thomas Pennant: Letters

  • NLW MS 5500C
  • File
  • 1773-1798

Nearly one hundred and fifty letters, 1773-1798, from Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) of Downing, Flintshire to Richard Bull at Stratton Road, Piccadilly, London, and elsewhere, with numerous references to Pennant's publications and to prints and ...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Thomas Pennant: Ornithology notes,

  • NLW MS 22731iE.
  • File
  • [1760s].

A copy of F. Willughby and J. Ray, The Ornithology of Francis Willughby ... (London, 1678), once owned by Thomas Pennant (1726-98), naturalist and traveller (see The Literary Life of Thomas Pennant by himself (1793), p. 1), to which has been added...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Gronovius: Letters to Thomas Pennant

  • NLW MS 22195C
  • File
  • 1762-1764

Ten letters in Latin, 1762-1764, from Laurent Theodor Gronovius (1730-?1778), Dutch naturalist, to Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), traveller and naturalist, mainly relating to their natural history studies and exchanges of books and specimens.

Gronovius, Laurentius Theodorus, 1730-1777

Trade with the Levant and India,

  • NLW MS 12075B.
  • File
  • 1786-1787 /

A notebook containing a concise account of 'Imports and exports of the English to and from the Levant [1786-1787] also of the Tin Trade in India [1787] communicated by John Hawkins Esqr.'. The title, on the outer cover, is in the hand of...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Pennant's Tour in Wales

A manuscript containing extracts by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) from Thomas Pennant, A Tour in [North] Wales (London, 1778).

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Thomas Pennant letter,

A letter, 17 July 1757, from T[homas] Pennant, Downing, to an unidentified fellow naturalist, ordering two copies of his new book ('the 1st volume of your History') and telling him of recent additions to his own collection.The letter con...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

An outline of Mr Southey's poem entitled Madoc

  • NLW MS 23947C.
  • File
  • [1805]

A volume, [1805] (watermark 1800), in the hand of 'J.W.L.' [probably Sir James Winter Lake, bart], containing an outline of Robert Southey's poem 'Madoc'.The outline consists of a prose summary of the contents of parts one...

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

Letters to Thomas and David Pennant,

  • NLW MS 17420D.
  • File
  • 1764-[?1835].

Seven letters with related papers, 1764-[c. 1835], addressed to Thomas Pennant (ff. 3-10), his son David Pennant (ff. 13-17, 19) and David's wife, Louisa (ff. 11-12, 18) of Downing, Flintshire, on subjects including ornithology, zoology and w...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798

Thomas Pennant letter to William Borlase

A letter, 17 August 1764, from Thomas Pennant, Downing, to his fellow naturalist [the Rev. William] Borlase, concerning Pennant's grief at the recent death of his first wife, a drawing [?of a lamprey] sent by Borlase, the receipt from a Mr Fl...

Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798