90 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBORNE 1756 



On November 6th, 1756, Mr. Yalden settled with 

 his curate for supplying the curacies of Dene and 

 Newton "for a year and a quarter " to that date. 



The curacy of Selborne was, apparently, for the 

 second time undertaken by Gilbert White at this 

 time, since he records the payment of £15 from 

 Dr. Bristowe, the Vicar, on this account in April, 

 1757; and a further sum of £10 "in full" on 

 July 4th of the same year. 



In November, 1756, the following entry appears : — 



Year's Board for self and Mouse £ s. d. 

 [his horse] to my father to 

 Nov. 5 . . . 40 00 00," 



the vicarage house of Selborne having merely afforded 

 sleeping accommodation. 



On January 13th, 1757, Mulso, who had received 

 no news of his friend for some time, writes : — 



" I conclude that the mornings were spent in riding, and 

 the afternoons in Burnet's ' History of the Eeformation ' ; 

 and I had two pictures of you before my eyes ; one was the 

 scene of Dr. Bristow's parlour, and the other your own. In 

 the first you was a solitary Figure, and as hard at it as Duns 

 Scotus ; in the other I had represented the very pleasing 

 Figure of Miss White, with some Housewifery in her Hand, 

 and giving now and then an agreeable interruption to your 

 Labours. Harry was cast into the Shade, and it was doubt- 

 ful whether he was studying or no; but this confusedness 

 of my ideas was owing to his being so perverse as not to 

 confirm his Image in my Imagination when I was in 

 Hampshire." 



