134 LBTTBBS TO GILBEBT WHITE 



offended if I do not tell You how much she longs (tho' not in 

 the way of last Year) to see your alterations at Selbourne, 

 neither has She less Curiosity to know your ingenious Brother.* 

 Every hot day She wishes for some sage Urgauda to transport 

 her by the easy Conveyance of an airy Journey to the peacefull 

 Hermitage. She desires to be kindly remember'd to Yourself & 

 the Family. Our little Jenny thrives & entertains Us vastly; 

 She is a sweet-tempered child, tho' no Beauty ; but She is just 

 going to be weaned & to cut her teeth, which being cruel aeras 

 may alter her for the worse, 'till she has got over them. The 

 Bishop's Family have undergone a severe Dissappointment in 

 finding out that Mrs Ogle is not with Child at last ; all hopes are 

 over & She is returned to Riding for the re-establishment of her 

 health. My Father & Sister were well at Canterbury when I 

 heard from them last. Bob Young having an Itch for going into 

 Scotland set out for Edinbourgh last Saturday. Bill Young is 

 wth the Duke of Marlboro' near the Rhine. Tom Mulso & 

 Pressy are in Town, but Tom sets out for Salisbury when the 

 Bishop returns from Bremhill, & stays there as Mr Secretary 

 'till the Family come to Town. 



My sincere Regards & good wishes attend your Friends. 

 I am, Dear Gill, Afftely Yours, 



J. M. 



Letter 79. 



To the Reverend Mr White Sunbury, 



at Selbourne near Alton, Hampshire. Sepr 12, 1758. 



Dear Gil : 



There was a little agreable Paragraph that lay lurking in 

 the last Folding of your Letter, which is what I shall take Notice 

 of before all the rest of your kind Letter. You give Us hopes that 

 We may see Miss White as well as Yourself at Sunbury. You 

 seem to be confined by the Sequestration, f & yet this detached 

 little Piece of News seem to mean that We shall see You before 

 You are released from that Confinement ; else, what means your 

 stingy Week ? it seems the very limits of an ecclesiastical Tether. 

 But Mrs Mulso sends her Comps. to Miss White & will be very 

 glad to see her at Sunbury for whatever Time She can be so good 

 as to spare to Her, & wishes it may be in her Power to make it as 

 agreable to Her as She found the Time that She spent at 

 Selbourne. You know my Territories ; & that now I have 



* Harry White personated the Hermit of the Hermitage. 



t Of Selborne, to which living Mr. Etty had succeeded on the death of 

 Dr. Bristow in July, 1758. Gilbert White undertook the duty for him until 

 October, 1759. 



