1781 "MAKE HASTE, MY DEAE EEIEND" 71 



If you come by Caversham, be pleased to ask for a parcel 

 of papers which I left with Mr. Loveday. 

 I am, with due respect, 



Your most affectionate servant, 

 Gil. White. 



If you will direct your portmanteau to be left at the 

 Bell Savage on Ludgate hill London, to be forwarded to the 

 Swan at Alton by the Southampton coach, it will, I trust, 

 come safe. 



On June 16th, 1781, Mulso wrote to thank his 

 old friend for his interposition with Dr. Sheffield, 

 now Provost of Worcester College, in favour of his 

 son, John Mulso, junior, who had been elected to a 

 scholarship there — 



" I presume this will find you at Selbourne after your visits 

 in London and Surry. . . . Pray give me an account of 

 your family and their proceedings, and how Jack Gib. goes 

 on. I daresay well, and hope he will be a comfort to his 

 mother. 



You have robbed the good old Bishop* of a pleasure by 

 deferring the publication of your book. Are you cowardly, 

 or are you over nice and curious ? Make haste, my dear 

 old friend, or you may rob the nephew too. Am I not 

 three score in Nov^ next ? Do you keep it for my chair- 

 days ? Perhaps you mean to assist my ideas, when I cannot 

 expatiate to enlarge my observations. I do not know that 

 I could conquer Selbourne Hanger now." 



On July 28th the Naturalist's Journal has a 

 curious note on the sense of colour in birds : — 

 "The white throats are bold thieves; nor are the red 



* John Mulso's uncle (both in blood and by marriage), Dr. Thomas, 

 Bishop of Winchester, who had recently died. 



