82 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1782 



Writing from South Lambeth to her brother at 



Fyfield on March 11th, 1782, Miss White tells him 



that — 



"My uncle and Mrs. John White intend returning next 

 Friday. My uncle is obliged to leave us on account of his 

 church: we have just heard of the death of Mr, Roman: 

 he christened me. My uncle may perhaps lose his curacy 

 of Faringdon. The living is, I believe, intended for a young 

 man about seventeen." 



Eeturning from Lambeth Gilbert White received 

 a visit from his brother Henry, with whom, as the 

 latter records in his own Journal on April 6th, 1782, 

 he visited Winchester on his way to Fyfield, where — 



" H. W. and G. W. saw the new altar piece at Winchester 

 Cathedral, the raising of Lazarus by Mr. West — very fine, 

 the frame gone to be changed." 



On April 5th, 1782, Mulso writes : — 



" I lately learned an event that I think must have inter- 

 ested you a good deal, and that was the death of D"^ Roman ; 

 by which your curacy of Faringdon must have been hazarded. 

 I have not yet learned who succeeds, or upon what footing 

 you now are. I think your College might make an exchange 

 for you, if the value of the living would compensate the 

 Fellowship and curacy." 



These remarks serve to show that the writer's 

 scruples about the retention by his friend of his 

 Fellowship must have been satisfied, as in truth they 

 should have been. 



On June 2nd, 1782, Mulso writes thanking his 

 friend for kindly receiving the recommendation of a 



