192 CORRESPONDENCE OF GILBERT WHITE 



LETTER VI. 



TO THE SAME. 



Selborne, May 9, 1781. 

 DEAE SIR, 



WHEN I called at Brazen-nose Coll. in the Easter week, I was 

 sorry but not disappointed in not finding you, because Mr. 

 Loveday had intimated that probably you would be gone on a 

 visit to his son. 



As you have seen Selborne, and the nakedness of the land 

 at Xtmas, you will not do it justice if you do not come and 

 visit it in all its glory, in its full foliage, and verdure. 



I therefore exhort you and enjoin you to come and spend 

 the Whitsun vacation here, where your company and con- 

 versation will be very acceptable ; and, if I mistake not, my 

 neighbours will be glad to see you also. 



If you come by Caversham, be pleased to ask for a parcel of 

 papers which I left with Mr. Loveday. 

 I am, with due respect, 



Your most affectionate servant, 



GILL. WHITE. 



If you will direct y r portmanteau to be left at the Bell 

 Savage on Ludgate hill London, to be forwarded to the 

 Swan at Alton by the Southampton coach, it will, I trust, 

 come safe. 



LETTER VII. 



TO THE SAME. 



Seleburne, Jan. 4, 1783. 



DEAR SIR, 



YOUR long and communicative letter of Dec. 16 gave me 

 much satisfaction. After you went away my family became 



