340 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



returns his Thanks for your Intention of seducing him over to 

 Selbourne. I am glad You call it lovely weather, it is a Sign 

 You are well; but these high & blighting Easterly Winds do 

 no good to us rheumatic People. We beg our best Comps. to 

 yr Household & Neighbours. 



I am, Dear Gil, Your's very afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Mem : toritten wth a Skewer. 



\ after 12. I have detain'd ye Lad to wait for a Lobster 

 Woman as long as we could. She is at last come, I have sent 

 you 4. They were all alive just now, but by pluyiging them in 

 cold water they are immediately dead, and they will keep the 

 better & eat the firmer for it. I have open'd the Lr to tell you 

 this. 



Letter 223. 



Reverend Mr White, [Meonstoke] 



Selborne near Alton, Hants. + at Alton. Sepr 19, 1787. 



Dear Gil : 



I have written this to give You notice that I have just 

 sent off your Bell's Travells for ye Gosport Coach, Carr. pd 

 to go tomorrow. If they should not arrive to you, this will put 

 you upon proper Inquiries why, in which I would second You, 

 but I hope there is no Danger. 



We are much obliged to you for the Loan; the reading of 

 them, however, did not answer Expectations in any One Way. 

 It is dry & unsatisfactory, & I beleive the Countries, pass'd over, 

 are more accurately & usefully described in later Publications. 

 But your Brother knows better what will answer in Sale than 

 we do. I wish the Editor had left out the Map. I think I should 

 have been clearer without it. 



Many Thanks for it & Comps. to All from Us. 



I am ever. Dear Gil, Your's afiftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Your Boy delighted me in saying that your Hanger is not cut 

 down. 



Letter 224. 



Reverend Mr White, Meonstoke, 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Stop at Alton. July 21, 1788. 

 Dear Gil : 



We came to this Place on ye 5th of June ; we htid a few fine 

 days after our first coming, but we have a Constancy of Rain 

 since it first set in 'till within these four days, and now it is 

 very precarious. This Season has disagreed wth my Wife & me. 



