Major sources and abbreviations used in references to them:
AS – Gilbert White, The Antiquities of Selborne, ed. W. Sidney Scott, 1950. (The most helpfully annotated edition.)
DB – Manuscript letters from Gilbert White to Daines Barrington, British Library Add. MS 31852.
GK – Gilbert White, The Garden Kalendar, British Library Add.
MS 35139. (A facsimile of this was published by Scolar Press in 1975. A full transcription is forthcoming from Century-Hutchinson.)
GWM – Gilbert White Museum collection, The Wakes, Selborne.
HL – The Henshaw papers, bMS Eng 731 Houghton Library, Harvard University. (A large collection of White family papers.)
HRO – Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, Hampshire. (Selborne parish records.)
JM – John Mulso, The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne, ed. Rashleigh Holt-White, 1906.
LL – The Life and Letters of Gilbert White, ed. Rashleigh Holt-White, 2 volumes, 1901.
MCA – Magdalen College Archives, Oxford. (Papers concerning the manor and parish of Selborne.)
NHS – The standard published text of: Gilbert White The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, 1789. (A facsimile was published by Scolar Press in 1970.)
NJ – Gilbert White, The Naturalist’s Journals, British Library Add. MS NJ BL 31846–51. (A full transcription of the journals is forthcoming from Century-Hutchinson.)
Selborne–various editions of The Natural History, indicated by the name of the editor.
TB – Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, ed. Thomas Bell, 2 volumes, 1877. (An important edition which also contains numerous letters, poems, account books, etc.)
TP – Manuscript letters from Gilbert White to Thomas Pennant, British Library Add. MS 35138.
1. James Russell Lowell, ‘My Garden Acquaintance’, in My Study Windows, 1871.
2. 4 June 1785, NJ.
3. Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (1775), ed. R.W. Chapman, 1924.
4. Virginia Woolf, ‘White’s Selborne’, in The Captain’s Death Bed, 1950.
5. Mark Daniels, introduction to Selborne, 1983.
6. Edward Thomas, ‘Gilbert White’ in A Literary Pilgrim in England, 1917.
7. See Michael Rosenthal, Constable: the Painter and his Landscape, 1983.
8. New Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1830, vol. 29, p. 566.
9. James Fisher, introduction to Selborne, 1941.
10. James Russell Lowell, Latest Literary Essays and Addresses, 1891.
11. John Burroughs, ‘Gilbert White’s Book’, in Indoor Studies, 1895, and ‘Gilbert White Again’, in Literary Values, 1903.
12. Edward A. Martin, A Bibliography of Gilbert White, 1934.
13. J. Wright, ‘Saint’ Gilbert, 1909.
14. See Edmund Blunden, Nature in English Literature, 1929; Cecil Emden, Gilbert White in his Village, Oxford, 1956; H.J. Massingham, Selborne, 1938; E.M. Nicholson, Selborne, 1929; Anthony Rye, Gilbert White and his Selborne, 1970; W.S. Scott, White of Selborne, 1946.
15. John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, 1691; William Derham, Physico-theology, 1711–12. See also, Charles Raven, John Ray, Naturalist, 1950, for an excellent analysis of physico-theology.
16. Rye, see note 14 above.
17. See Charles Dixon, The Migration of Birds, 1892.
1. Letter 6, AS.
2. William Cobbett, Rural Rides, ed. George Woodcock, 1967.
3. James Mudie, in Selborne, ed. Edward Blyth, 1836.
4. Letter X to Thomas Pennant, NHS.
5. Parish Register 1703, 32 M 66 PR, HRO.
6. The Sixth Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state and condition of the Woods, Forest, etc. of the Crown, 1790.
7. Letter V to Thomas Pennant, NHS.
8. See J.E. Gover, Hampshire Place Names, 1961, manuscript in HRO, and Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 4th edition, 1960.
9. Letters 7 to 25, AS.
10. GW to Sam Barker, 2 Sept. 1778. LL vol. II p. 29.
11. E.M. Yates, ‘Selborne and Wolmer Forest’, in Selborne Association Newsletter, 2 Oct. 1978.
12. 132/27 MCA.
13. Selborne 397, MCA and also C 33/332 fo 143, Public Record Office.
14. Miscellaneous correspondence with tenants, MCA, and also 135/107, MCA.
15. Survey and Terrier of Selborne Lands, 1793, CP 3/18, MCA.
16. Ibid.
17. Court Books, 1726–91, V 56–60, MCA.
18. Ibid. and R. Haywood, ‘Wood Rights in Selborne’, in Selborne Association Newsletter, 3 Feb. 1979.
19. Arthur Young, A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties, 1768.
20. A. and W. Driver, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Hants, 1794.
21. Charles Vancouver, General View of the Agriculture of Hampshire, 1810.
22. Gilbert White, ‘Answers to the several questions respecting the parish of Selborne’, 193, HL.
23. Letter V to Thomas Pennant, NHS.
24. Vestry Accounts, 32 M 66 PUI, HRO.
25. Cobbett, see note 2 above.
1. LL vol. I p. 31.
2. See, for instance, V.H.H. Green, A History of Oxford University, 1974, and Christopher Wordsworth, Social Life in the English Universities, 1873.
3. Joseph Warton, Companion to the Guide, 1760.
4. C.L. Shadwell, Registrum Orielense, 1893.
5. Joseph Warton (ed.), Works of Vergilius Maro, 1763. See also Edmund Gosse, ‘Two Pioneers of Romanticism’, in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1915, for a critical assessment of the Warton brothers’ influence.
6. Warton, see note 3 above.
7. 18 July 1744, JM.
8. 8 Oct. 1744, JM.
9. 6 June 1751, JM.
10. 17 July 1749, JM.
11. 30 Aug. 1750, JM.
12. H. Chapone, Posthumous Works (with a ‘Life drawn up by her own Family’), 1807.
13. Account Book, 1747, Oriel College Library.
14. LL vol. I p. 49.
15. 27 Oct. 1746, and 21 Aug. 1747, JM.
16. GW to John White, 9 and 16 April 1746, 102, 103, HL.
17. GW to Thomas White, 24 June 1776, LL vol. I p.321.
18. R. Butcher to (GW?), 17 HL.
19. LL vol. I p. 45.
20. John White to Butcher, 18 Aug. 1746, 211 HL.
21. 1 Aug. 1746, JM.
22. 30 Aug. 1750, JM.
23. Ibid.
24. Version in Selborne, ed. Frank Buckland, 1880.
1. David Standing, The Wakes Garden: a Short Guide, Selborne, 1985.
2. 11 April 1750, JM.
3. The Guardian, No. 173, 29 Sept. 1713.
4. A facsimile exists, edited by John Clegg and published by the Scolar Press in 1975. A full transcription is to be published by Century-Hutchinson in 1986.
5. Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1737.
6. Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1783, also in LL vol. I p. 50.
7. Account Book 1758, GWM.
8. John Harvey, Early Gardening Catalogues, 1972.
9. 29 Jan. 1752, JM.
10. 28 March 1752, JM.
11. Account Books, 1752–53, TB vol II.
12. 27 Jan. 1753, JM.
13. Account Book, 1752, TB vol. II p. 323.
14. 4 Aug. 1753, JM.
15. 4 Nov. 1751, JM.
16. 26 Mar. 1754, et al. JM.
17. 23 April 1756 and 4 Oct. 1754, JM.
18. John White to GW, 10 Jan. 1759, LL vol.I p. 110.
19. 222, HL. There is extant a curious poem – ‘On the difference between an ancient and a modern hermitage’ – which is presumed to have been written by John in Gibraltar in 1758. This was the year the Whites erected on the Hanger the rustic summerhouse they called the Hermitage, and the poem’s theme is a rather cynical discussion of how the original function of such retreats had declined. It is not easy to square such an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what was happening in Selborne with John’s ostracism by his family. But if the poem has been correctly attributed, some of its sections do suggest that John was harbouring rather bitter feelings about his exile and enforced hardship:
Some Ages ago when a Man was inclin’d
To retreat from the Trifles which busy Mankind
Bid adieu to all Business, Folly, Care,
And devote himself wholly to Fasting and Pray’r,
He retir’d to a Mountain, found, or made him a Cave,
And shap’d out his Table, his Bed, and his Grave.
Drank nothing but Water, eat nothing but Roots …
But in these modern time ‘tis a different matter,
Our hermits can’t live upon Roots and plain Water.
When they have a mind to erect them a hut,
They pick out the pleasantest place can be got,
They stack it with Burgundy, Claret, Rhenish
And with Tongue, Ham and Chicken, their bodies replenish
But the D--1 a bit do they e’er think of pray’r.
They are wholly ta’en up with the Gay and the Fair.
Each Hermit the praise of some charmer rehearses,
To whom he writes sonnets and copies of verses …
But the Reason of this any Person may guess –
Then tell me my friend, of these Hermits would you
Choose to live as the Old or the Modern ones do?
Answer: Why faith as the Moderns, and I think so would you.
20. LL vol. I p.94.
21. 19 March 1757, JM.
22. 13 July 1758, JM.
23. Andrew Clark, The Colleges of Oxford, 1891.
24. 29 Nov. 1758, JM.
25. Quoted in ‘Gilbert White’s Fellowship’, in Selborne Magazine, vol. 25, 1914.
26. LL vol. I pp. 98–108, vol. II pp. 43–8.
27. Survey and Terrier of Selborne Lands, 1793, CP 3/18, MCA.
1. 2 Nov. 1758, GK.
2. 13 April 1759, GK.
3. 13 Jan. 1761, JM.
4. 24 Jan. 1761, GK.
5. Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. J. Dallaway, 1828.
6. 21 May 1761, GK.
7. Letter XLVI to Barrington, NHS.
8. Ibid.
9. See A.E.C. Kennedy, Steven Hales, DD, FRS, 1929.
10. GW to Marsham, 25 Feb. 1791, LL vol. II p. 230.
11. For a full discussion of changing attitudes towards animals’ rights and welfare, see chapter IV ‘Compassion for Brute Creation’ in Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World, 1983.
12. 9 Oct. 1762, JM.
13. See LL vol. I pp. 129–38.
14. GW to Catharine Battie, 88 HL. The manuscript note contains 15 kisses, inscribed in crucifixes or daggers.
15. 28 July, 1763, GK.
16. LL vol. I p. 135.
17. LL vol. I p. 136.
18. 3 Oct. 1763, JM.
19. Ibid.
20. 7 Dec. 1763, JM.
21. 6 Jan. 1764, JM.
22. TB vol.I p. 501.
23. 24 June, 1765, JM.
24. ‘Sir’ John Hill, The British Herbal, 1755; John Ray, Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum, 3rd edition, ed. J.J. Dillenius, 1724; William Hudson, Flora Anglica, 1762 (the first English flora to use Linnaean names).
25. Gilbert White, Flora Selborniensis, 1766. A facsimile was published by the Selborne Society in 1911.
26. 25 April 1766, JM.
27. 20 Oct. 1767, GK.
1. 13 Oct. 1767, JM.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. GW to John White, 29 March 1774, LL vol. I p.245.
5. 10 Aug. 1767, TP.
6. Thomas Pennant, The Literary Life, by Himself, 1793.
7. Ibid. Pennant was also a great writer to the papers, and was the author of an extraordinary, and rather prurient, note to the General Evening Post about the fashion among young ladies for masculine clothes that followed the one for rustic dress (see page 92):
Miss Dorothy … with a great yawn flung her arms over her head, and her legs a yard before her, and informed us, it was dressing time: then pulling her watch out of, I believe, tight leathern breeches, acquainted us, that it was half past two; and returned it to its place with a most officer-like air… My niece Elizabeth in defence of this new mode, says, that its [the watch’s] motions are considerably altered since it has experienced a new situation. No wonder, since it had quitted the temperate for the torrid zone.
8. Thomas Pennant, A Tour of Scotland, 1769.
9. Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1677. A printed sheet of preliminary Enquiries was circulated in 1670, as well as being included in the book.
10. W.P. Jones, ‘The Vogue of Natural History in England, 1750–1770’, in Annals of Science, 1937.
11. Letter X to Pennant, NHS.
12. Preface to NJ.
13. Benjamin Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous tracts, including The Calendar of Flora, 1755
14. Originally 12 May, 1770, TP, but published as Letter XXVIII (March 1770) to Pennant, NHS. The letter continues with some recollection of the moose while it was still alive:
This poor creature had at first a female companion of the same species, which died the spring before. In the same garden was a young stag, or red deer, between whom and this moose it was hoped that there might have been a breed; but their inequality of height must always have been a bar to any commerce of the amorous kind.
15. 30 March 1768, TP.
16. GW to Joseph Banks, 21 April 1768, TB vol. II p. 241.
17. 2 June 1768, JM.
18. 26 July 1768, JM.
19. 28 Feb. 1769, TP.
20. Ronald Blythe, ‘An Inherited Perspective’, in From the Headlands, 1982.
21. 8.Oct. 1768, TP.
22. 28 Feb. 1769, TP. Published as Letter XXIII to Pennant, NHS.
23. 2 Jan. 1769, TP.
24. Letter XXII to Pennant, 2 July 1769, NHS.
25. Letter XXXI to Pennant, 14 Sept. 1770, NHS.
26. Letter XXV to Pennant, 30 Aug. 1769. NHS.
27. 10 Aug. 1769, NJ.
28. 1 Sept. 1769, TP.
29. Daines Barrington, Miscellanies, 1781.
30. Ibid.
31. Charles Lamb, ‘The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’, in London Magazine, 1821.
32. Letter IV to Barrington, 19 Feb. 1770, NHS.
33. Letter V to Barrington, 12 April 1770, NHS.
34. 12 Jan. 1771, TP.
35. 28 Nov. 1768, TP.
36. Ibid.
37. 12 May 1770, TP.
38. GW to John White, 1769–1772, 108–121 HL. See also the discussion of the correspondence in Paul Foster, ‘The Gibraltar Correspondence of Gilbert White’, in Notes and Queries, 1985, ns vol. 32 nos 2–4’(which also include transcriptions of the letters).
39. GW to John White, 6 Nov. 1770, 114 HL.
40. 12 Jan. 1771, TP.
41. 22 Sept. 1771, NJ.
42. GW to John White, 25 Jan. 1771, 115 HL.
43. 19 July 1771, TP.
44. 26 Dec. 1773, JM.
45. 27 Dec. 1770, JM.
46. 11 July 1772, NJ.
47. 22 Aug. 1772, NJ.
48. 2–15 Nov. 1771, NJ.
49. John White to GW, 1 Aug. 1772, 217 HL.
50. 10 Jan 1773, JM.
51. Selborne Parish Register 1773, 3M M 66 PR 4–14; HRO.
52. GW to John White, 2 Aug, 1773, LL vol. I p. 218.
53. GW to John White, 11 Sept. 1773, LL vol. I p. 222.
54. GW to John White, 1 Oct. 1773, LL vol. I p. 227.
55. GW to John White, 2 Nov. 1773, LL vol. I p. 231.
56. Letter XVII to Barrington, NHS.
57. Ibid.
1. GW to John White, 2 Nov. 1773, LL vol. I p. 233.
2. Gilbert White, ‘An Account of the House-Martin, or Martlet’, in Philosophical Trasactions of the Royal Society, vol. LXIV, part 1, 1774.
3. 15 Feb. 1774, JM.
4. Gilbert White, ‘An Account of the House-Swallow, Swift, and Sand-Martin’, in Philosophical Transactions, vol. LXV, 1775.
5. Preface to Letter XVI to Barrington, NHS.
6. Letter XVI to Barrington, NHS.
7. Letter XVIII to Barrington, NHS.
8. GW to John White, 12 Jan. 1774, LL vol. I p. 238.
9. Letter XXI to Barrington, NHS.
10. GW to John White, 15 July 1774, LL vol. I p. 258.
11. Letter XXI to Barrington, NHS.
12. Daines Barrington, Miscellanies, 1781.
13. Letter XL to Pennant, NHS.
14. GW to John White, 29 March 1774, LL vol. I p. 244.
15. GW to John White, 29 April 1774, LL vol. I p. 250.
16. GW to John White, 15 July 1774, LL vol. I p. 258.
17. E.M. Nicholson, introduction to Selborne, 1929.
18. 14 Jan. 1774, NJ.
19. 15 Feb. 1774, JM.
20. ‘Jack’ White to Samuel Barker, 6 April 1774, LL vol. I p. 247.
21. Letter XLV to Barrington, NHS.
22. 15 Feb. 1774, JM.
23. GW to John White, 18 June 1774, LL vol. I p. 255.
24. John White to GW [Aug] 1774, LL vol. I p. 263.
25. Personal communication from Charles Clark. The case concerned, Donaldson vs Beckett (4. Bur. 2408), had come before the Lords early in 1774, and had confirmed that the Copyright Act of 1709 (8. Anne chapter 19) had extinguished, or ‘merged’ as it was put, the old common law of copyright. This had been based on the assumption that the author of any literary composition and his or her assignees had the sole right of printing and publishing the composition in perpetuity. The 1709 enactment reduced this to a period of fourteen years after the author’s death, with a maximum additional fourteen years if he or she was still alive.
26. GW to John White, 9 March 1775, LL vol. I p. 279.
27. Her best-seller was Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, 1772.
28. GW to Anne Barker, 26 Nov. 1774, LL vol. I p. 273.
29. 17 Nov. 1774, JM.
30. 18 March 1775, NJ.
31. 8 July 1775, JM.
32. GW to John White, 12 Aug. 1775, LL vol. I p. 288.
33. Ibid. p. 289.
34. Rotha Clay, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1941.
35. See his Commonplace Book in GWM.
36. GW to John White, 30 Jan. 1776. LL vol. I p. 299.
37. GW to John White, 9 Aug. 1776, LL vol. I p. 326.
38. GW to John White, 2 Nov. 1776, LL vol. II p. 4.
39. GW to John White, 11 Sept. 1777, LL vol. II p. 16.
40. GW to John White, 31 Oct. 1777, LL vol. II p. 18.
41. Ibid. p. 18.
42. This introduction, edited by W.H. Mullens, was published as a pamphlet by the Selborne Society in 1913.
43. Anthony Rye, Gilbert White and his Selborne, 1970.
44. 14 Jan. 1776, NJ.
45. Letter LXII to Barrington, NHS.
46. 26 March 1776, JM.
47. 16 July 1776, JM.
48. See GW to Sam Barker, 1 Nov. 1776, LL vol. II p. 3.
49. GW to John White, 9 Aug. 1776, LL vol. I p. 326.
50. 30 Nov. 1777, JM.
1. 12 Oct. 1776, NJ.
2. 16 Oct. 1776, NJ.
3. GW to John White, 2 Nov. 1776, LL vol. II p. 6.
4. 19 Aug. 1777, JM.
5. 4 Nov. 1777, NJ.
6. Letter XLII to Barrington, NHS.
7. GW to Sam Barker, 6 May 1790, LL vol. II p. 216.
8. GW to Molly White, 19 Oct. 1778, LL vol. II p. 31.
9. GW to Molly White, 17 April 1779, LL vol. II p. 34.
10. GW to Molly White, 31 Mar. 1780, LL vol. II p. 48.
11. 24 April 1780, DB (partially published as Letter L, NHS).
12. 27 May 1780, NJ.
13. 28 Mar. 1782, NJ.
14. Letter from Timothy, LL vol. II p. 125. There is a delightful book about Timothy – and incidentally one of the most perceptive essays ever written on White – by Sylvia Townsend Warner, called The Portrait of a Tortoise, first published in 1946 and re-issued in 1981.
15. GW to Barbara White, 21 Sept. 1780, 93 HL.
16. GW to Molly White, 30 Sept. 1780, LL vol. II p. 55.
17. GW to Molly White, 13 Nov. 1781, LL vol. II p. 75.
18. Molly White to Thomas Holt White 24 Aug. 1779, 241 HL.
19. Court Books, V59, V60, MCA.
20. Selborne Parish Registers (1780) 32 M 66 PR 4–11, HRO. A rough cross made of local yew branches regularly hangs above the choir in Selborne church.
21. See Harry Hopkins, The Long Affray: the Poaching Wars in Britain, 1985.
22. 24 April 1780, DB (published partially as Letter XLIX, NHS).
23. Ibid.
24. Letter LV to Barrington, NHS. Current beliefs about the whereabouts of martins when they have ceased returning to the nest to roost are very different. Chris Mead of the British Trust for Ornithology believes that all the evidence points to martins roosting on the wing, like swifts, and that this is their custom in winter too. No night-time assemblies have ever been found in the summer months here; and, despite the ringing of 100,000 martins in this country, only one has ever been recovered from their wintering quarters in Africa, which would be a remarkably low figure if they were in the habit of coming to earth regularly. Gilbert, I am sure, would have been delighted by the idea of short-term ‘aerial torpidity’.
25. 24–31 Aug. 1781, NJ.
26. 5 June 1782, NJ.
27. 11 May 1782, NJ.
28. GW to Sam Barker, 3 Nov 1774. LL Vol. I p. 269.
29. John Arthos, The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth Century Poetry, 1949. See also Joseph Warton’s 1763 edition of Virgil and John Aikin, An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry, 1777.
30. GW to Churton, 4 Jan. 1783, LL vol. II p.89.
31. 2 June 1782, JM.
32. 13 Feb. 1779, JM.
33. 2 June 1782, JM.
34. Henry White’s journals, extracts in ‘Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield’, ed. R. Clutterbuck, n.d.
35. Letter LXV to Barrington, NHS.
36. GW to Molly White, 13 Feb. 1784, LLvol. II p. 113.
37. ‘On the dark, still, etc’, TB, vol. I p. 504.
38. GW to Molly White, 19 April 1784, LL vol. II p. 120.
39. GW to Molly White, 17 June 1784, GWM.
40. 6 June 1784, NJ.
41. 1 Sept. 1784, NJ.
42. 16 Oct. 1784, NJ.
43. GW to Anne Barker, 19 Oct. 1784, LL vol. II p. 134.
44. Richard Jefferies, preface to Round About A Great Estate, 1880.
45. GW to Anne Barker, 19 Oct. 1784, LL vol. II p. 136.
46. Selborne Parish Registers (from 1784), 32 M 66 PR series, HRO.
47. GW to Sam Barker, 17 April 1786, LL vol. II p. 157.
48. Selborne Highway Accounts (from 1774) 32 M 66 PS I, HRO.
49. Henry White, see note 34 above.
50. 1 Feb. 1785, NJ.
51. Richard Jefferies, introduction to Selborne, 1887.
52. Letter XXVII to Barrington, NHS.
53. Molly White to GW, 13 Feb. 1783, GWM.
54. Georgiana White, Memorandum Book, 1813, 67 HL.
55. 12 Dec. 1789, NJ.
56. George Sturt, Lucy Bettesworth, 1913.
57. Virginia Woolf, ‘White’s Selborne’, in The Captain’s Death Bed, 1950. See also chapter 3 of W.J. Keith, The Rural Tradition, 1974.
58. GW to Molly White, 26 Nov. 1787, LL vol. II p. 172.
59. GW to Molly White, 13 March 1788, LL vol. II p. 181.
60. GW to Sam Barker, 8 Jan. 1788, LL vol. II p. 177.
61. 19 Mar 1788, NJ.
62. GW to Benjamin White, jnr, Feb [1788] LL vol. II p. 177.
63. GW to Churton, 4 Aug, 1788, LL vol. II p. 185.
64. 5 Nov. 1788, NJ.
65. ‘To Myself Commencing Author’, AS p. 189.
66. 15 Dec. 1788, JM.
67. Henry White’s Journal, 1788. Bodleian Library: Misc English Mss. C 154.
68. LL vol. II p. 194.
69. GW to Molly White, 14 Sep. 1791, 149 HL.
70. Montagu to GW, 27 June 1789, LL vol. II p. 203.
71. Marsham to GW, 24 July 1790, TB vol. II p. 246.
72. GW to Marsham, 13 Aug. 1790, TB vol. II p. 249.
73. GW to Marsham, 18 Jan. 1791, TB vol. II p. 258.
74. 7 Sept. 1791 NJ.
75. GW to Marsham, 19 Dec. 1791, TB vol. II p. 272.
76. Marsham to GW, 12 Feb. 1792, TB vol. II p. 276.
77. GW to Marsham, 13 Aug. 1790, TB vol. II p. 251.
78. See also: Arthur Young, The Example of France: a Warning to Britain, 1793.
79. GW to Marsham, 2 Jan. 1793, TB vol. II p. 297.
80. GW to Benjamin White, 19 Feb. 1793, LL vol II p. 261.
81. Parish Register, 1789 32 M 66 PR, HRO.
82. James White to GW, 12 Feb. 1793, LL vol. II p. 259.
83. GW to Marsham, 20 March 1792, LL vol. II p. 242.
84. 27 Aug 1792, NJ.
85. 29 May 1793, NJ.
86. GW to Marsham, 15 June 1793, TB vol. II p. 301.
87. LL vol. II p. 271.
1. LL vol. II p. 272.
2. Edward Martin, A Bibliography of Gilbert White, 1934.
3. See J.L. and B. Hammond, The Village Labourer, 1911, and E.J. Hobsbawm and G. Rude, Captain Swing, 1969.