178 GILBEKT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1788 



spelt just as it happened, even their own names often not 

 twice alike. Should not the quotations from the documents 

 be printed in Italics ? You will, I conclude, have a title- 

 page to the Antiquities, to which the priory-seal will make 

 a proper vignette. The great N. view of Selborne is engrav- 

 ing, I understand, and will be opposite the first title-page : 

 the view of the Hermitage will then best perhaps appear 

 opposite p. 62 : in which mention is made of it. That the 

 documents may be kept safe together, I have numbered 

 them, and put them in a paper bag. 



As fast as I receive my proofs, I continue to enlarge my 

 Index. The title-page to the ]Srat[ural] Hist[ory] is furnished 

 with apt Motto's. My thanks are due for all your good 

 offices; and for your late trouble in purchasing me £200 



Y^ loving uncle, 



Gil. White. 



I take the liberty to return the book of Royal Forests, &c., 

 from which I have extracted some information. You will 

 also receive my preface, or advertisement. Concerning the 

 disposition of the Hermitage print please to consult your 

 father, and father in law. Might not the Hermitage print 

 come in well at the back of the first title-page, or as a tail- 

 piece to the Natural History ? 



Please to observe that all se diphthongs, as musce, phcdcence^ 

 &c. are always written — muse, phalene, &c. — in old records. 



Where there is any very bad Latin in the evidences, or 

 strange uncouth spelling, please to put in the margin — sic. 



None of the errata pointed out in this letter was 

 corrected in the first edition of the book, and conse- 

 quently it would seem that it was already at least 

 partly printed off at this date. The first three of 

 them, with others, were printed on an inserted slip. 



