know. With respects to your father and mother 

 and all the family, 



I remain Y^" affect : Uncle, GiL : White. 

 Nanny White mends apace : she is still at New- 

 ton. 



To Mrs. Barker. 



Selborne : Dec : 25 : 78. 



Dear Sister, 



My Nep : Edm^ who is now at Newton, brings 

 a most sad account of his mother, whose state of 

 health is very deplorable, and her infirmities and 

 sufferings very great. As to our poor brother in 

 Lancashire, I have not heard from him for some 

 time : the last account was but bad. 



Next week we expect at this place a great navi- 

 gator^ or rather navigatress, who within these 20 

 months has sailed 20,000 miles. The person alluded 

 to is Miss Shutter, Mrs. Etty's niece, who set out for 

 Madras in March, 1777 ; and returning to Europe 

 this autumn in the Carnatic India-man, was taken by 

 her own countrymen near the coast of France and 

 carried to the downs, and landed at Deal. This 

 Lady appears in great splendor ; and is, it is sup- 

 posed, to be married to a Gent : now on the seas in 

 his way from India. Bad fevers and sore throats 

 obtain much in these parts, and many children die. 



A person at Harkley buryed three, his whole stock, 



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