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can spare which may contribute to my farther information, 

 please to leave them at my brother's in Fleet street. I hope 

 to be at Blackburn the beginning of May. 



I am, D' Sir, 



With much esteem, 



Y' most obed* serv*, 



J. White. 



In your list of Animals of Southern Europe which you 

 have got drawn, I cannot precisely distinguish which of 

 them are mine, but shall be glad if you would put a mark 

 on those which you had from me. 



A little later the Naturalist's Journal records 

 a visit to London with Mr. and Mrs. John White, 

 John White being then very likely engaged upon 

 the business of his proposed publication of his 

 * Fauna Calpensis.' Gilbert White returned alone 

 on May 21st. 



To the Rev. John White. 



Selborne, June 26, 1773. 



Dear Brother, — Your favour of the 17th reached me last 

 Wednesday; and about the same time, I presume, you 

 received my account about Jack's measles. My nephew 

 continues perfectly well, and has not through the distemper 

 nor since had the least cough. From the time that he 

 came home he had somewhat of an hoarseness in his voice, 

 which I took at first to be a cold; but upon considering 

 the matter, it is owing no doubt to a cause incident to 

 young men about his time of life. 



It pleases me much to find that you have heard the 

 sibilous, or shivering wren ; * since now you know all the 



* The wood-wren or warbler of modern English writers. — A. N. 



