COEEESPONDEXCE OF GILBEET WHITE. 



LETTERS TO HIS BEOTHER 



THE 



REV. JOHN WHITE, 



LETTER I.* 



Selborne, May 26, 1770. 

 DEAR BROTHER, 



I AM to acknowledge first the receipt of your kind letter of 

 February 19, which I should have answered before now, had 

 I not waited for your box of curiosities ; concerning which 

 you would naturally expect I should give some account. 

 Farther obligations are now due for a second letter of April 

 14 : but though I have not yet received the box, I must no 

 longer omit to take notice of your agreeable communications. 

 It is probable the box may be in London : but I have lately 

 intimated that I would not wash to have it sent down at 

 present, as I hope to be in town as soon as Whitsuntide is 

 over. 



Your Vesper with purple wings are a beautiful and scarce 

 species : they are the Vespce crabroni congener es in Italia captce 

 of Mr. Willughby, well described in Kay's His. Insectorum, 



* [The first and second letters were written when his brother was 

 Chaplain at Gibraltar. T. B.] 



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