50 LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER 



You will see in the papers a remarkable cause in the com- 

 mons between a patron and a rector who took two distant 

 perpetual curacies ; the matter was determined in favor of the 

 rector : had it gone against him the rector of Fyfleld would 

 have had cause to quake. I propose staying in town 'til the 

 14th of March. Respects to my sister. 



Your affect, brother, 



GIL. WHITE. 



If you think the mention of your degree of A.B. will occa- 

 sion any inconvenience, you may easily drop it. Brother Tho. 

 waits on the dean of Ely tomorrow at Lambeth : and will be 

 sure to desire him to represent you and Harry in a favorable 

 light to the new Bishop of Chester. Poor Nanny White de- 

 clines very fast, and is in a very languishing state *. 



LETTER XXIII. 



Thames Street, March 5, 1776. 

 DEAR BROTHER, 



BROTHER Tho. and I both think that you should yourself 

 write to the Archbishop one of your best letters, and beg to 

 know of him whether you might dedicate to him, and tell him 

 the reason why ; and then you will act on sure grounds. If 

 you are not permitted, you might mention the Gen. in your 

 preface. 



Brown, I think, is in gaol in St. George's Fields ; but artists 

 never work more steadily than when under confinement, 

 Forster has just received a letter from Linnaeus, who wants to 

 publish a new Mantissa of plants in England. Brother Benj. 

 declines meddling. Forster says that when you write to 

 Linn, you should direct to him not as professor at Upsal, but 

 as academician, since all such letters go free, because the 

 academy is of royal institution. Forster's new genera of 



* [After many fluctuations in the state of her health, she died in 

 October 1777. See page 64. T. B.] 



