26 LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER 



Jack by no means wants a coat and waistcoat yet; he shall 

 have a pair of fustian breeches. Bro. Tho. can hear of no 

 master as yet, but will continue to enquire. Prices are so 

 enormous, that a common seedsman asked him the astonish- 

 ing deposit of 300 ! to enable a young man to sell a penny- 

 worth of radish seed ! 



I could get no Mus *, as nobody moved a rick. 



Pray write very soon. 



Yours affectionately, 



GIL. WHITE. 



Friends join in respects. 



If you have anything for Linn, send it up soon, because the 

 ship is likely to sail shortly. If you have any desiderata with 

 respect to Spain, now is your time, for Mr. Barrington | tells 

 me this morning that he has just compleated a nat. treaty with 

 the King of Spain, who is to send all the curiosities of S. 

 America, and the R. S. are to send him all the nat. productions 

 of N. America. 



I remember you wished to know how far the Hirundo 

 melba extended up into Spain, and whether the Hirundo ru- 

 pestris was seen in summer in the internal parts. 



Mr. B. shewed me and Jack the curiosities of the R. S. ; 

 there was a stuffer packing and preparing the productions of 

 N. America for the use of the King of Spain. 



Pray write soon. 



LETTER XII. 



Selborne, March 29, 1774. 

 DEAR BROTHER, 



THE long contested drawings are lodged in Thames Street in 

 order to be sent down to you. I wish they had been better 

 executed, and the owner had behaved more like a gentleman 



* [He alludes to the harvest-mouse, Mus messorius, of which White 

 was the discoverer in this country : see vol. i. p. 36. T. B.] 



t [Mr. Barrington was at this time commissary of the stores at Gib- 

 raltar, residing, however, in England. T. P.] 



