THE REV. JOHN WHITE. 35 



Mr. Yalden will not probably set out for Spain 'til next 

 spring : I shall exhort him by all means to take your recom- 

 mendations in his pocket. He is a decent zoologist, and 

 particularly an entomologist. He is returned, I hear, from 

 Edinburgh to Winton. 



Your quantity of drawings, I find, are considerable ; no 

 doubt they should be engraved in London. As to your botany 

 it should be carefully overlooked by somebody ; in the zoolo- 

 gical part your powers are much more considerable and you 

 want only a friend, as all men do, just to remark those small 

 errors or slips which " incuria fudit." 



You are the best judge whether you should address Mrs. 

 Cornwallis ; if you do, you may express your regard for her hus- 

 band with more warmth than if he was living : Quis desiderio 

 sit pudor aid modus ? Send me some account of the Hippo- 

 bosca hirundinis at your leisure. 



Harry's little academy is in a flourishing way ; he will, it 

 is too probable, lose his £100 young gent, at Midsummer ; 

 but then at that time he is to have a fresh pupil of 14 years 

 of age at £150 per annum. His building has been heavy on 

 him ; but without considerable additions he could not have 

 stood on the present footing. So one must be set against the 

 the other. We are much distressed in Hants by the long dry 

 season ; no grass, and a poor prospect for spring corn ; butter 

 10c?. per pound, and hay at £4 10s. per ton ! 



Mr. Chandler's stile and wording is very lame and defective 

 indeed. Sir Tho. Gatehouse's eftects are just sold off at both 

 his seats. My respects to my sister and Jack ; " John " I 

 mean, now he is six feet high. You cannot take another living 

 without becoming A.M. or LL.B., both which degrees will 

 require time, attendance, and expense ; if you take a second 

 living now, you render your first void ipso facto. 



The bloom on all sorts of trees is this year very extraordinary 

 indeed ! 



At present I think of sending for Grimm about the begin- 

 ning of July : I may employ him for perhaps a month. Mr. 

 Yalden of Newton then talks of taking him for a week to draw 

 his house and outlet ; and then he is to go to Penruddot- k 



