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whether you were at Selborne; but one or other avocation 

 prevented me. So here I am; and your bread and butter, 

 and cream and tea and sugar, will shortly suffer great 

 depredations. However, in some respects I hope you will be 

 the better, aye, and the richer, for my visit. In the first 

 place I bring you an Anglesey penny from the fair hands of 

 Miss Loveday ; who, I hope, by this time is in perfect health. 

 When I called at Caversham on Whit Tuesday a bad fever 

 was just gone off, but she still kept her bed. Of her friends, 

 however, she was not unmindful, and she sent me down this 

 coin with a commission to bring it hither. I never saw 

 Mr. L. in better health or spirits, though his leg, which he 

 bruised some time ago and neglected, is not well, as it would 

 be soon if he would rest it before him; but he prefers a 

 wounded leg with activity to sound limbs and idleness. 

 This incomparable friend of ours, who knows everything, 

 presently showed me the 'Annals of Waverley' in print, 

 among some other tracts published by Gale. D^ Adee, M.D., 

 whom you knew probably, collected a history of Waverley 

 Abbey; and my friend D"^ Bostock has a transcript of it. 

 He has made considerable use of the annals, and appears to 

 have put together all, or nearly all, that is to be met with on 

 the subject. I left a paper for you at Fleet Street, which 

 said that the heart of Peter de Eupibus was buried at 

 Waverley, and his body at Winchester. The Hist, of 

 Waverley mentions this; and D^" Adee adds "that when 

 Mr. Child first came to the place, a heart was dug up in a 

 leaden pot, and preserved in some liquor." Simon de Mont- 

 fort is also mentioned ; but this, I think, I extracted on the 

 said paper. 



No Mr. White, no Mrs. J. White, no Mr. Edmund White, 

 no Mrs. Etty ! Alas poor Selborne ! thy grotesque lanes, 

 thy romantic vales, thy delightful walks, thy verdant hills, 

 thy extensive prospects deserve to be honoured by other 

 inhabitants than the philosophic Timothy in the beginning 



