170 CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS FAMILY. 



also ; so that my old parlor is become quite an Index-manu- 

 factory. Mrs. J. White joins in best respects, and the good 

 wishes of the season to you and lady ; and I am, with all due 

 affection, 



Your loving uncle, 



GIL. WHITE. 



LETTER XLVIII. 



TO HIS NEPHEW BENJAMIN. 



Selburne, Feb. [1788 ?] 



Dear Sir, 

 I received your letter concerning Mr. Pegge, but cannot, as 

 you well know, promise anything. At the same time, also, I 

 received by Molly six more sheets of clean proofs, so well cor- 

 rected that I have not met with one error ; and indeed the 

 errata are so few, that at present they will go into a small 

 compass, and are as follow : — 



P. 31. line 15. For teems read teams *. 



P. 91, line 7. d. comma, and for or read of *. 



P. 219, line 15. For no the read not be*. 



As I find you advance apace, I have by bearer sent up my 

 ' Antiquities,' because I do not find myself able to correct or 

 improve them any further. You will be pleased not to be 

 offended at the vague spelling of the names of men and places, 

 but to take them as you find them in their places, because 

 centuries ago men had no criterion to go by, but spelt just as 

 it happened, even their own names often not twice alike. 

 Should not the quotations from the documents be printed in 

 italics ? You will, I conclude, have a title-page to the ' Anti- 

 quities,' to which the Priory seal will make a proper vignette. 

 The great N. view of Selborne is engraving, I understand, and 

 will be opposite the first title page ; the view of the Hermit- 

 age will then best perhaps appear opposite p. 62, in which 

 mention is made of it. That the documents may be kept safe 

 1 [These misprints were not corrected.] 



