AND THE REV. R. UHURTON. 195 



at my bro. Tho. White's at South Lambeth, just beyond 

 Vauxhall turnpike, he would be glad to see you. It is a 

 pretty walk from town to S. Lambeth ! If you will go there 

 and dine* (next?) Sunday, you will meet both families ; for 

 they both live * (there ?). 



[Here followed the pleasing lines "On the early and late blowing of the 

 Vernal and Autumnal Crocus," which will be found among the Poems at 

 the end of the first volume ; they were first written in this letter to Mr. 

 Churton.— T. B.] 



I am, with all due esteem, 



Your most humble servant, 



GIL. WHITE. 



Neighbours are all well. Mrs. J. White joins in the good 

 wishes of the season. 



LETTER VIII. 



TO THE SAME. 



Seleburne, Aug. 20, 1783. 



Dear Sir, 

 Tho' my house is full of company, yet I must no longer 

 delay to answer your agreeable and intelligent letter from 

 Williamscot. Poor Mrs. Etty has been a great -sufferer both 

 in mind and body, having paid a long attendance on her son 

 Andrew, who languished from spring to midsummer, and 

 then dyed of a slow decay. What added to the affliction 

 was, that Miss C. Etty was lying all the while under the 

 same circumstances at Winchester, and dying first, was 

 brought to this place ; so that I had the sorrowful office of 

 burying these two young people, the one on one Saturday, 

 and the other on the following. Ch. Ettv has not been heard 

 of since he sailed for India in March; but the papers mention 



* [These words, or some of similar meaning, have been torn from the 

 edge of the letter.— T. B.] 



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