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have written to Dr. Chandler. Give my best respects to Mrs. 

 J. White, and comp* 8 to the surgeon, who I hope will get on 

 well in his new situation. I hope Mrs. Etty and the ladies 

 are well, and beg to be remembered to them. I owe you 

 many thanks for your kind hospitality, and, hoping to hear 

 from you at your leisure, I am, 



Yours, &c., 



K. CHURTON. 



LETTER XL 



FROM MB. CHURTON TO GILBERT WHITE, 



Selborne, June 6 ; 1787. 

 DEAR SIR, 



I AM just arrived from Waverley, and very sorry not to find 

 the master of this hospitable mansion at home. I did not 

 know that I should be at Waverley these holidays till just 

 before I set out thither; and when my plan was fixt I pur- 

 posed at several times to write to enquire whether you were 

 at Selborne ; but one or other avocation prevented me. So 

 here lam; and your bread and butter, and cream and tea and 

 sugar, will shortly suffer great depredations. However, in 

 some respects I hope you will be the better, aye, and the richer, 

 for my visit. In the first place I bring you an Anglesey 

 penny from the fair hands of Miss Lovoday, who, I hope, by 

 this time is in perfect health. When I called at Caversham 

 on Whit Tuesday a bad fever was just gone off, but she still 

 kept her bed. Of her friends, however, she was not unmind- 

 ful, and she sent me down this coin with a commission to 

 bring it hither. I never saw Mr. L. in better health or spirits, 

 though his leg, which he bruised some time ago and neglected, 

 is not well, as it would be soon if he would rest it before him; 

 but he prefers a wounded leg with activity to sound limbs and 

 idleness. This incomparable friend of ours, who knows every 

 thing, presently showed me the ' Annals of Waverley ' in print, 



