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conduct in practice and behaviour, and that he has made a 

 wise Partnership. Pray do you go this year to S. Lambeth ? 

 and at what time ? How many branches have you to look 

 after in every place that you go to ! . . . 



I am, my dear Gil., 

 Your old friend and affte. humble servant, 



J. MULSO. 



This letter ends the correspondence on the side 

 of Mulso, who died in the following September. 

 Like so many of his contemporary clergymen in the 

 eighteenth century, his view of life was not perhaps 

 a very dignified one. Nevertheless, he certainly was 

 a true and attached friend to Gilbert White ; and all 

 unknowingly acted the part of a veritable Boswell, 

 by which he has very materially contributed to our 

 knowledge of the Naturalist's career. 



To E. Marsham. Selborne, Jan. 18th, 179L 



Dear Sir, — As your long silence gave me some uneasiness 

 lest it should have been occasioned by indisposition ; so the 

 sight of your last obliging letter afforded me much satis- 

 faction in proportion. 



I was not a little pleased to find that your friend Lord 

 Suffield corroborated the account of the Cuckoo given by 

 Mr. Jennor, * whose relation of the proceedings of that 

 peculiar bird is very curious, new, and extraordinary. It 

 does not appear from your letter that you endeavoured to 

 revive the Swallow, which fell down before your parlor- 

 window. I have not yet done with trees, and shall therefore 

 add, that my tall 74 ft. beech measures 6 feet in the girth at 

 two feet above the ground. Beeches seem to me to thrive 



* Jemier, the inventor of vaccination. 



