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as they were to me, who though I have often seen them 

 formerly, yet had forgotten many circumstances. Your 

 husband also will be pleased to see some account of his 

 ancestors. This fierce weather appears very formidable to 

 me, who, though the gout hangs still about me, shall be 

 obliged, if at all able, to set out for Oxford on Easter 

 Monday. Please to send Mrs. J. White word whether 

 Mrs. White of L[ambeth] chuses to have Mrs. Etty's dark 

 tortoise-shell cat. Mrs. E. talks of leaving Selborne in the 

 Easter week. Yrs ^ 



Gil. White. 



To Mrs. B. White. 



Friday, Mar. 21, 1788. 



Dear Molly, — I have just this minute received your kind 

 letter of the 20th. As I have always looked upon your 

 father's interposition as a singular advantage to my work 

 while printing off, I shall most readily desire that his cor- 

 rection may take place : and any other that may occur in 

 the course of this business. As to the Antiq. letters being 

 addressed to some body, I cannot well tell what to say : 

 though I think if to any, it should be to D"". Chandler ; 

 because he has taken so much pains, and has contributed so 

 much to make them what they are. But as the T)^ is too 

 far off to be consulted, and may perhaps be displeased 

 should we take any such step without his approbation, I 

 think it may be best to let the letters go as they are, 

 addressed to no one. Your husband is the best judge of 

 the expediency of printing in Italics or not ; I meant with 

 respect to those documents applyed in the body of the 

 work, not those in the appendix. The Priory-seal will 

 appear well, I think, in the title-page to the Antiquities. If 

 there is any objection to the line under the Hermitage, 

 let it be erased. In the last parcel of clean proofs at 

 237 p. line 2 there is the following error, which injures the 



