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1788 LETTEE TO MAEY WHITE 179 



To Mrs. B. White. 



Selborne, Feb. 3rd, 1788. 



Dear Molly, — Tho' I wrote to your husband but yesterday; 

 Yet I don't love to omit writing again by your father, who is 

 to go from us to you to-morrow. 



Thanks for your letter by Farmer Keene, and the clean 

 proofs by the same hand. Tell your husband that I wish to 

 have the Gentleman's Magazines remain in London for the 

 reason given, because the wanting may be supply ed perhaps 

 some time hence. 



In your father's portmanteau I send up my camblet sur- 

 tout, and desire you would please to order Bunce to bring 

 you some patterns out of Hand, and to make me such another, 

 and full as lig every way ; cut high behind, but with a turn 

 down collar. Pray charge him to make it full as hig and 

 full as long. I send you two pheasants, which were killed on 

 my farm at East Harting, and sent me by E. Woods, and G. 

 Hounsom : one of them I intend for yourself, and one for 

 my sister Ben. 



You may depend on it that we shall be glad to see you, 



when you are disposed to come. The learned pig^ is very 



well, and very intelligent. " Moreover his mother made him 



a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when 



she came up with her husband . . . " 1 Sam. ii. 19. The text 



above I leave you to apply as you think proper : I shall only 



remark, that it proves affectionate mothers to have been the 



same in all ases. -r^, , • , 



° Y'^ loving uncle, 



Gil. White. 



Pray bring down both my Surtouts, and as many sorts of 

 seeds as Miss Eebecca has to spare ; but not many of a sort : 

 and at the same time more clean proofs. 



* His niece's child Benjamin, at nurse at Selborne ; ' * Manakin " in a 

 former letter. 



