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hope yet to live to see you a pious and respected parish 

 priest : as for me — I hope I shall do my duty as I have 

 strength and alDility, and I hope I shall always continue, 

 what 1 now profess myself, 



Your friend and brother, 



H. K. White. 



TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



St John's, Cambridge, 10th Dec. 1805. 

 Dear Neville, 



I am so truly hurt that you should again complain of 

 my long silence, that I cannot refrain from sending this 

 by the post, although 1 shall send you a parcel to-morrow. 

 The reason of my not having sent you the cravats sooner, 

 is the difficulty I have found in getting them together, 

 since part were in the hands of my laundress, and part 

 dirty. I do not know whether you will find them right, 

 as my linen is in other respects deficient, and I have a 

 cause at issue with my washerwoman on that score. 

 This place is, literally, a den of thieves ; my bed-maker, 

 whom we call a gyp, from a Greek word signifying a 

 vulture, runs aw^ay with everything he can lay his hands 

 on, and when he is caught, says he only borrows them. 

 He stole a sack of coals a-week, as regularly as the week 

 came, when first I had fires ; but I have stopped the 

 run of this business, by a monstrous large padlock, 

 which is hung to the staple of the bin. His next trick 

 was to bring me four candles for a pound instead of six ; 

 and this trade he carried on for some time, until I acci- 

 dentally discovered the trick : he then said he had 

 always brought me right until that time, and that then 

 he had brought me fives, but had given Mr H. (a man 

 on the same staircase) one, because he thought he under- 

 stood I had borrowed one of him: on inquiring of Mr 

 H., he had not given him one according to his pretence ; 

 but the gentleman was not caught yet, for he declared 

 he had Icat one to the bed-maker of Lord B. in the 



