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Pray write soon and mention the business alluded to at the 



° ^' Yr loving uncle, 



Gil. White. 



Crickett, red cabbages, early York, and sugar loaf are in 

 rough leaf. 



To Miss White, Seleburne, May 22, 1784. 



Dear Molly, — If your brother Harry was in orders, I 

 could now put him into present pay and good quarters; 

 because the curacy of Selborne seems likely to be at my 

 disposal. The reason of this is, because Mr. Taylor, the 

 probable next vicar, has been here, but does not seem at 

 all disposed to reside. He was very earnest with me to 

 take this church at once : but I told him I could not leave 

 Faringdon abruptly. This gentleman and Mrs. Etty are 

 in treaty about the vicarage-house, which Mrs. E., I find, 

 would be glad to take. Mr. Taylor, I understand, has made 

 connections in the New Forest near Eing-wood; has got 

 a small living in those parts, and expects a better: he is 

 concerned with the Lisle family some how ; and is to marry 

 a young lady of that name, as is reported. 



Poor Mrs. Etty is now in some perplexity of mind about 

 her son Charles, who wrote her word that he should 

 certainly sail from the Cape in one of Commodore King's 

 men of war. But Mr. King has been now come in to 

 Spithead for some time; yet no young man, nor letter 

 appears: neither by enquiries aboard can they make out 

 the meaning of this disappointment. We all hope that in 

 the interim between his writing and King's sailing, Charles 

 went aboard some Indiaman, and may have called by the 

 way at S^ Helena. 



We have lost poor Timothy, who, being always in a great 

 bustle in such hot weather, got out, we suppose, at the 

 wicket, last Thursday; and is wandered we know not 



