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to all I bid adieu with grateful thanks may the "Woods 

 flourish may no mischievous Boy hurt the little Nest may 

 all the good inhabitants have as many happy days there 

 as I have had 'tis the sincere wish of Dapttnf 



Though London seemed to this young lady such 

 a dismal residence after Selborne, it may be recorded 

 that the bow- window of the back drawing-room of 

 her father's house in Great Russell Street, at the 

 corner of Montague Street, the site of which has 

 long been absorbed by the British Museum buildings, 

 at this time commanded an uninterrupted view of 

 the Highgate and Hampstead woods. A few years 

 afterwards the eldest of the three sisters married 

 Admiral Sir George Young ; the second, Catharine, 

 became in 1771 the wife of John Rashleigh, of 

 Penquite, Fowey ; son of Jonathan Rashleigh, of 

 Menabilly, Cornwall ; and the youngest, Philadelphia, 

 married Mr., afterwards Sir, John Call, Bart. 



On July 28th, 1763, John Mulso writes :— 



" I received a letter last night from my dear brother Ned. 

 If he is still with you I beg you to thank him for it. I 

 gather from it that you find your guests in a variety of 

 entertainments, and keep them constantly employed in 

 gallantry. They are now reduced, by the departure of the 

 Sorceresses, to the elegiac strain ; and must at least hang 

 verses on the Beeches of the Hanger and the Noar, if they 

 do not serve themselves in the same way." 



Though he did not hang either himself or his 

 verses on the Selborne Woods, Gilbert White soon 



