148 CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS FAMILY. 



The end of Jan. and this month have been very wet ; so 

 that I fear wheat will get very high, and that the season for 

 our spring-crops will be bad, especially if harsh weather 

 succeeds at once. How will your cellars come off? When 

 do the young men go to college ? 



Your affect te uncle, 



GIL. WHITE. 



Mr. Denison is chosen to Holiburn school * in the room of 

 Mr. Willis : poor Mrs. Robinson, who has 10 children, made 

 what interest she could for her husband, who is at present a 

 navy chaplain in the W. Indies : she got two votes, her 

 opponent three. There are but five feofeeg, one of them a 

 broken blacksmith. 



LETTER XXXVII. 



FKOM MISS MARY WHITE. 



Feb. 10, 1783. 



* * * The Monthly Reviewers produce whole passages, which 

 Mr. Cookson has copied from their criticism on Mr. Madan's 

 workf. 



Be so kind as to bring with you the account of the poplar 

 that we left at Selborne. 



Since I began this, which was some days ago, I have had 

 the pleasure of receiving a letter from you, for which I am 



* [An endowed school at Holyburn, near Alton, for the education of 

 the children of the parish itself, and of 12 from Alton. The master was 

 formerly required to be a clergyman of the Church of England, which is 

 not now necessary. T. B.] 



t [The work here alluded to was ' Thelyphthora,' published in 1780, 

 which was very generally read, and almost as generally reprobated. 

 Mad an, although attached to the evangelical party in the Church, 

 offended the feelings and principles of the religious public by his bold 

 advocacy of polygamy and some other doctrines obnoxious to the views 

 of Christians in general. T. B.] 



