RELICS OF GILBERT WHITE. 
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RELICS OF GILBERT WHITE. 
SHORT account of some relics of Gilbert White, now 
in possession of the Rev. F. Gilbert White, vicar of 
Lensden, South Devon, may possibly be of interest to 
the readers of Nature Notes. 
(1) A letter from Gilbert White to his sister-in-law, Mrs. 
John White of Blackburn. This I have copied as exactly as 
possible, without alteration of the spelling. 
“ Selborne, April 17. 
“ Dear Sister, — 
“ By both your last letters, for which I return you 
thanks, it plainly appears that my brother continues gradually 
to recover strength, and that air, exercise, and bathing are of 
singular service ; and therefo^re I hope he will strive against 
irresolution, and summon up all his manhood to pursue the 
one and submit to the other, irksome as it may feel at times. 
You talk of Bath in this case : and those waters doubtless have 
done wonders ; but brother Thomas says while the cold bath 
continues to be so serviceable he cannot see what more can be 
expected from hot ones, which, one should suppose, would rather 
relax. He thinks at present you had better pursue your home 
regimen. In town I saw Mr. Fielden, and your intended Curate ; 
the former had lately seen my brother, who to his thinking was 
marvellously mended, and looked in the face almost as usual. 
Yesterday, if I mistake not, Mrs. Snooke entered into her 84th 
year. The late hot weather was of singular service to her, 
and relieved her from a cough, which had annoyed her the 
winter thro’. On Easter Monday Bro'" and Sister Harry and 
several of their children are to go up to South Lambeth. They 
have just inoculated four of their children with singular success. 
My neighbour Yalden has just got a regular smart fit of the 
gout. 
“ My new parlor now dries at a great rate ; and will be 
fit for use at Midsum'', but I shall not be able to compleat it 
this summer. I must not put on my upper paper ’til another 
year. With my best wishes and prayers for my brother’s 
recovery, I remain 
“ Y'' affectionate brother, 
“Gil. White.” 
(2) A sermon of Gilbert White’s, numbered by him gg, on 
the text I John iv. 20. According to the endorsements, it was 
preached by him on thirty-eight occasions between April 3, 
1748 and I7g2 (nine times at Selborne, and fourteen times at 
Farringdon). It then passed into the hands of his nephew, the 
Rev. Glyd White, who made a few alterations in it, substituted 
a new conclusion, and preached it at Brightwell, Oxon, in 1813. 
With some slight further alterations it was preached twice in 
that year by the Rev. Samson White, at Maidford and at Cold 
