SeO LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



White, Gilbert— {continued.) 



pleasure in hill scenery, 24 ; invited to Sunbury and London, 25 ; about 

 to take a curacy, 25 ; at Bradley, 27 ; partiality for the Odyssey, 32 ; for 

 a cool day, 34 ; invites Mulso family to Selborue, 35 ; visits in Wilts and 

 Devon, 37 ; a great traveller, 38, 57 ; masterly description of scenery, 39 ; 

 exact account of his travels, 41 ; former taste for Oxford life, 45 ; resi- 

 dence at Oriel, 46 note; tired of a College life, 46 ; his poem, the * Invita- 

 tion,' 48, 135 ; letter from Hester Mulso to, 51 ; John Mulso's collection 

 of his travels, 53 ; his good health, 53; curate of Selborne, 55 note ; life 

 there, 56; power of journeying, 57; Proctor at Oxford, 57; an after- 

 noon's ride for, 58 ; meets Mulsos at Oxford, 60 note ; powers of enter- 

 taining, 61 ; of description, 68 ; speech as Proctor, 69 ; visits Bristol hot- 

 well, 70, 98 ; his expression ' hectic heat,' 71 ; curate of Durley, 72 ; his 

 philosophy, 72 ; on a clergyman's duty, 73 ; his ' emblem,' 73 ; sends 

 game to Hester Mulso, 77 ; describes gardens, 78 ; a bad correspondent, 

 79 ; ' a comet,' 79 ; asked to find a horse, 80 ; offers loan of a horse to John 

 Mulso, 81 ; reasons for returning his horse, 83 ; his singing, 88 ; asked to 

 shoot at Sunbury, 88 ; his Oxford scheme, 88 ; disappointment, 89 ; sends 

 game to Hampton, 89 ; his Selborne improvements, 90, 104, 105, 111, 

 163, 170 ; accident to, 91 ; his idea of real merit, 93 ; of horse exercise, 

 94 ; hopes of preferment at Oriel, 96 ; curate of West Dean, 97 ; his long 

 day's ride, 99 ; wishes to marry and settle, 99, 100 ; dislike of solitari- 

 ness, 101 ; hopes for his brother Henry, 102 ; promises longer letters, 

 102 ; sends game to London , 105 ; curate of Newton Valence, 103 ; 

 elegance of his letters, 104 ; his large handwriting, 105, 227, 286 ; an 

 economist, 108, 114, 148; bespeaks a \]fhite room at Sunbury, 108; his 

 imaginary description of a wedding, 109 ; wedding present, 110 ; dis- 

 criminating powers, 110, 111 ; habit of sacrificing his pleasure, 112 ; at 

 Selborne Vicarage, 114 ; Perpetual Curate of Moreton Pinkney, 114 ; 

 candidature for Oriel Provostship, 115 ; liking for cyder, 119 ; travelling 

 habits, 119 ; buys a horse for John Mulso, 121 ; visits West Dean, 132 ; 

 wish for a Vicarage there, 133 ; curate of Selborne, 134 ; death of his 

 father, 136 ; reasons for retaining his Fellowship, 137 ; letter to Oriel 

 College, 137 ; not troubled by party and contention, 143 ; a bad corres- 

 pondent, 146 ; an inquisitive man, 149 ; going to Lyndon Hall, 150 ; eager 

 to hoar about Thornhill, 152 ; a connoisseur at gardens, 153 ; purchase 

 and alteration at Selborne, 154, 162 ; a slow writer, 156 ; reconciled to 

 Dr. Musgrave, 169 ; his Garden Kalendar, 163, 164 ; on his friendship 

 with John Mulso, 165 ; a huzzar parson, 166 ; visits Moreton Pinkney, 

 166; a disappointment there, 167; describes N. Tedworth, 168; au 

 enthusiastic melon grower, 169 note ; refused living of Bradley, 174 ; his 

 guests at Selborne, 176 ; a bold bachelor, 178 ; his application to the 

 Lord Chancellor, 179 ; entertainments at Selborne, 179 ; his verses, 

 * Kitty's Farewell,' 184 ; his evening employment, 184, 185 ; easily accom- 

 modated as a visitor, 188 ; not a dancer, 190 ; his matrimonial inten- 

 tions, 192, 203 ; offered the living of Cholderton, 193, 212 ; rebuilds 

 stables at Sfilbome, 197 ; offered the living of Tortworth, 198 ; on the 

 cares of matrimony, 198 ; visits John Mulso in London, 201 ; studies 

 botany, 202; offered Cromhall Rectory, 206; as a host, 210, 215; his 

 desire to live at Selborne, 212 ; wish for Ufton Nervett Rectory, 212 ; his 

 pleasure in natural history, 215, 216; quotes from Pope, 217 ; his botani- 

 cal pupil, 218 ; habit of ascertaining everything, 220 ; inexhaustible 

 systema, 228 ; Mulso strangely guided by his judgment, 234 ; entertains 

 his brother John and wife, 239 ; subscribes to Infirmary, 241 ; seeks a 

 temporary curate, 246 ; his disinterestedness in money matters, 248 ; new 

 room at Selborne, 248, 276 ; on the Mulso pedigree, 257 ; his punctuality, 

 261 ; his ' Selborne' 's success prophesied, 266 ; his ' Selborne ' deferred, 

 269, 306 ; his constancy to plans, 270 ; arrangement with Thomas White, 



