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what you say of him, and, if I am able to attend at Easter, 

 shall mention your recommendation to the society. 



When the summer is established, if you find within yourself 

 an inclination to visit Hants, I shall be very glad to see you 

 at my house, and to show you our prospects, which are 

 romantic enough. Your company and conversation, provided 

 you can bear with the infirmities of a deaf man, will be very 

 agreeable to me. Dr. Chandler is now sitting at my elbow, 

 and is deeply engaged in Bp. Waynflete's Registers, two vol. 

 fol. which I obtained to be sent to my house from Winton by 

 permission from the Bp. of that diocese : last summer we had 

 Bp. Wyckhame's registry of the same bulk and number of 

 vol. I am, Sir, 



Your obliged servant, 



GIL. WHITE. 



LETTER II. 



TO THE SAME. 



Selborne, near Alton, Hants, 



July 3, 1780. 



Dear Sir, 

 As I have always wished to express my gratitude for the 

 many good offices you have conferred on me, I must desire 

 that you would furnish me with an opportunity, by taking the 

 trouble to come to my house, where I shall rejoice to see you 

 in the course of this summer. 



At present my beds are all like to be full for two or three 

 weeks to come ; but by the end of July at farthest I shall be 

 glad to see you for 4 or 5 weeks. It will probably be in my 

 power to shew you a new country, and a district not un- 

 pleasing in fine weather. If you can bear with the infirmities 

 of a deaf man, your company and conversation will be very 

 agreeable to me : and in yr answer I bar all proposals re- 

 specting some future summer, because at my timo of lifa 



