1776 



AN IMPEOVEMENT AT FYFIELD 



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like a T ; odd, but roomy and convenient. 



We are much distressed in Hants by the long dry 

 season: no grass, and a poor prospect for spring -corn: 

 butter lOd per pound, and hay at £4 10s. per ton ! 



Mr. Chandler's stile and wording are very lame and 

 defective indeed.* Sir Thomas Gatehouse's effects are just 

 sold off at both his seats. 



My respects to my sister, and Jack — John I mean, now 

 he is six feet high. 



You cannot take an other living without becoming A.M. 

 or LL.B., both which degrees will require time, attendance, 

 and expence; if you take a second living now you render 

 your first void ipso facto. 



The bloom on all sorts of trees is this year very extra- 

 ordinary indeed ! 



At present I think of sending for Grimm about the 

 beginning of July : I may employ him for perhaps a month. 

 Mr. Yalden of Newton then talks of taking him for a 

 week to draw his house, and outlet ; and then he is to go 

 to Penruddock Wyndham Esq*"^ at Warnford. So he will 



* This may possibly refer to 'Travels in Asia Minor,' published in the 

 previous year (1775), or to 'Travels in Greece,' published in 1776, by 

 Richard Chandler, the traveller and antiquary, with whom Gilbert White 

 subsequently became intimately acquainted. 



