98 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1733 



To the Rev. Edmund White. 



Selborne, Feb. 28, 1783. 



Dear Nephew, — I could wish that you would make it 

 a rule to read aloud to yourself every day some portion 

 of Scripture or the common prayer, though ever so short, 

 and that you would sometimes also read before a judicious 

 friend. But at the same time read plainly and unaffectedly, 

 and do not aim at anything theatrical or fine: but only 

 attend well to what you read, and your own good sense and 

 ear will tell you at the time how to modulate your voice, 

 and lay your accents justly, according as you are affected by 

 what is before you. 



Mr. and Mrs. Yalden, who are just gone, and Mr. and 

 Mrs. Clement now in the room, join with Mrs. J. White in 

 respects. 



Remember me to White 3^^"^ 4*^, and 5*^^. 



I am, dear White 2""^'^^, 



Your loving friend, 



White 1^"«. 



Give my respects to Mr. Beake, and Mr. Twopenny ; and, 

 when opportunity offers, to the Provost. Mrs. J. White 

 and I propose to go to town about March 10th. 



To Miss White. 



Selborne, Apr. 30, 1783. 



Dear Mrs. Mary, — If your Father will turn to Baron 

 Riedesel's travels thro' Sicily, &c. translated by Forster, he 

 will find, p. 184, some curious particulars respecting the 

 family of Coypel the painter, then residing in some rank at 

 Gallipoli, in Apulia. I returned from Oxford on Saturday 

 last, and was with the Provost,* who has been at Bath. 

 I am sorry to say that his state of health is still very 



* Of Oriel, Dr. Eveleigh. 



