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village should be finished before the Natural History is all 

 printed, I should be glad if your husband could send me one 

 down with the clean proofs. 



I have got duplicates of sheet F. viz. from p. 33 to p. 40 

 inclusive : the last sheet that you brought me is G g. p. 225. 

 If any objection or difficulty arises in the MS. let your 

 father [i.e. Thomas White] decide the matter. 



On a blank page in this letter Benjamin White, junr. 

 made a note — 



" It will not be necessary to print the quotations from the 

 Documents in Italics. 



"The Priory seal will make a very good Vignette to the 

 Antiquities, and The Hermitage to the general Title; 

 but with your leave the 'where the Hermit hangs,' etc., 

 shall be erased. 



" The great view of Selborne is not yet finished ; great part 

 is done. B. W. will observe the rest of the directions." 



To Mrs. B. White. Selborne, Mar. 13, 1788. 



Dear Molly, — My thanks are due for six sheets of letter- 

 press, clean proofs, which I received by means of Mr. Webb : 

 the last sheet of which is Nn. Two sheets more, I con- 

 clude, will comprize all the Natural History. In return 

 for your care about my brat, I have the pleasure to inform 

 you that your boy is perfectly well, and brisk: and that 

 his nurse is better. On the other side of the paper you 

 will find the epitaphs of your great great grandfather Sir 

 Samson White, and your great great uncles, Henry White, 

 Alderman, of Oxford ; and of Francis White, Fellow of 

 Baliol Coll. in the same University. These inscriptions 

 were lately copied,* and sent me by Sam White ; and may 

 prove some entertainment to your father and father-in-law, 



* From their monuments in St. Mary's, Oxford. 



