74 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBOKNE i78i 



you would appear last Saturday. The great heats are now 

 abated, and the dust is layed; but the lovely weather 

 continues. We all therefore earnestly wish to see you both, 

 while the country is so agreeable. Peaches and nectarines 

 which are delicate, are going out; but grapes will soon 

 come ; they look black. We have caught 20 hornets ; wasps 

 there are none. 



Pray enquire of your father if he has received my 

 dividend ; because I want to pay John Stevens. Tell him I 

 thank him for ensuring Iping buildings; and enquire if 

 he has been so kind as to pay the continuance of the 

 Selborne, and Harting ensurance, which was forgotten. 



Your father's hazel-stick is looked out, and wiped ; and 

 the Bostal is in good order. 



With all due respects I remain 

 y loving JJnJcley 

 (for that is the modish way of spelling the 



relation-ship) 



Gil. White. 

 Mrs. Etty is very angry ! 

 A letter to you, post mark Gloucester, is lately arrived. 



On September 29th, 1781, Mulso writes :— 



"I thank you, in his name and my own, for your late 

 civilities to my son, of which he is very full; I think he 

 has even brought home with him the tone of your voices, 

 your phrases, and your stories. He is likewise sensible of 

 the charms of Miss White, and the obligingness of your 

 neighbours. He delivered your Piece by Mr. Grimm (the 

 Temple*) which I approve of very much; though I still 

 think that Mr. Grimm has a heavy hand at a distant view ; 

 nor can I forgive him, but as a Christian, for giving so 



* This became Plate VIII. in ' The Natural History and Antiquities of 

 Selborne,' p. 343. 



