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at all, I shall come forth by myself/' In a subsequent 

 letter to the same, written in August of the same year, 

 he alludes to his two papers read at the Royal Society 

 in 1774 and 1775, and refers to his intention to publish 

 by the express request that his nephew should pay 

 attention to all the species of the Swallow family, " for 

 I shall be glad of any well attested anecdotes, intending 

 some time hence to publish a new edition of my ' Hirun- 

 dines ' in some way or other." In the same letter he 

 speaks of Grimm's drawing of the Hermitage, which 

 afterwards formed the vignette in the titlepage of his 

 book. In a letter to his brother Thomas, in the month 

 of June 1777, he discusses the subject of the manners, 

 customs, and morals of the occupants of the Temple and 

 Priory, enclosing a long letter from Dr. Chandler on 

 that subject. It is possible that this information was 

 communicated to his brother with the immediate object 

 of assisting him in his projected work, the ' History of 

 Hampshire,' which, however, was never carried out ; but 

 the ultimate destination of the materials thus collected 

 was doubtless the antiquarian section of his own future 

 book, in which it appeared in detail eleven years later ! 

 To his nephew he again writes in the following year, 

 after a long and most curious quotation from a further 

 communication of Dr. Chandler's, " Should I ever be 

 able to finish my work respecting this my native place, 

 the old deeds and charters &c. will furnish a large ap- 

 pendix ! " To this intelligent relative's criticism he 

 submitted his MS., and he appears to have been much 

 pleased with his nephew's appreciation of his work. In 

 November 1780 he writes : " You do not, I hope, flatter 

 me about my Nat: Hist: ; if you do not, I am much 

 pleased to find that an intelligent person like yourself 



