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" Do you go to Oxford upon the scheme you mentioned ? 

 fs there a hope of its succeeding? or are you to sit down 

 it Waltham this winter, and warm yourself by the widow's 

 ire?" 



A. remark which probably has some connection with 

 the following entry in G. White's account-book : — 



"Oct. 14. — Postchaises from Bradley to Oxon. on Mr. 

 Whiting's death." 



The letter proceeds to mention more improvements 

 in the Selborne fields, where *'six gates one above 

 another in Perspective " had been contrived, ap- 

 parently between "The Wakes" and the Hanger. 

 A little later, on November 13th, 1754, some acci- 

 dent to his friend's knee, which nearly had serious 

 consequences, called forth these comments from 

 Mulso :— 



" I don't know anybody who would have felt the severity 

 of being a cripple more livelily than yourself, for if you once 

 come to confinement you are gone." 



Probably this accident detained the patient at 

 Oxford, where he stayed till the middle of Novem- 

 ber; whence he posted " the day after Harry's election 

 to Bishop Robinson's Exhibition" (at Oriel), which 

 no doubt was the object of the journey to Oxford. 



The letter continues — 



" I had not heard the circumstances of Whiting's death. 

 I heartily wish that all party rage had died with him ; and 

 that not so much because we have increasing obligations to 

 the present Family, but for a real regard for the University, 



VOL. I. — Q 



