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lasting friendship. As I do not take in the R. S. T. 1 I will 

 with pleasure accept of your present of a copy of your 

 " Indications of Spring." Hoping that your benevolence 

 will pardon the unreasonable length of this letter, on which 

 I look back with some contrition, I remain, with true 

 esteem, 



Your most humble servant, 



GIL. WHITE. 



Any farther correspondence will be deemed an honour. 



LETTER II. 



TO ROBERT MARSHAM, ESQUIRE. 



SELBORNE, Jan. 18th, 1791. 



iS your long silence gave me some uneasiness 

 lest it should have been occasioned by indis- 

 position ; so the sight of your last obliging 

 letter afforded me much satisfaction in pro- 

 portion. 



I was not a little pleased to find that your friend Lord 

 Suffield corroborated the account of the Cuckoo given by 

 Mr. Jenner, whose relation of the proceedings of that 

 peculiar bird is very curious, new, and extraordinary. 2 It 

 does not appear from your letter that you endeavoured to 

 revive the Swallow, which fell down before your parlour- 

 window. I have not yet done with trees, and shall there- 



and published in 1761, will be found alluded to in Letter XII. to Pen- 

 nant, p. 44. ED. 



1 Royal Society's "Transactions," better known perhaps as the 

 " Philosophical Transactions." ED. 



2 Dr. Jenner's "Observations on the Natural History of the Cuckoo " 

 will be found in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1778, pp. 219- 

 237. ED. 



