The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne

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Excerpt from The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne: From His Intimate Friend and Contemporary, the Rev. John Mulso, Edited With Notes and an Introduction The first mention of the Correspondence between Gilbert White of Selborne and John Mulso, that I have been able to discover, occurs in "a short biography" of the naturalist written by Mr. Edward Jesse for Sir William Jardine's edition of the "Selborne" published in 1850. Mr. Jesse, after stating that Mrs. Chapone's brother, John Mulso, was White's "most intimate friend, " continues "and between them a most interesting and amusing series of letters took place. These letters would have been well worth publishing, and it was intended that this should be done, but when Mr. Mulso's son was applied to for Mr. White's correspondence, the mortifying answer was re-turned that they had all been destroyed. Mr. Mulso's letters we understand are still remaining." The letters from Mulso came into the possession of John White, the publisher, a nephew of the naturalist. Prom him they passed to his son, the late Revd. John Tahourdin White, D.D., long a master at Christ's Hospital, and well known as a scholar and classical editor, who at one time proposed to publish them. For this reason he declined to lend them to Mr. Bell, who, when compiling his important edition of White's book, borrowed much MS. from other members of the family. Dr. John White, however, died some years ago without having carried out his intention, the letters then became the property of the present Earl of Stamford, a descendant of Gilbert White's youngest brother Henry, and at his instance they are now published. John Mulso's father, Thomas Mulso, b. 1695, was the only son of the representative of the ancient family of Mulso, or Moulshoe as it was formerly spelt, which had been established in Northamptonshire since before the reign of Edward I. Of what was once a very considerable landed estate Thomas Mulso possessed only the remains, which included a large Elizabethian house, standing (until 1832 when it was pulled down) on the north side of the church, at Twywell in the above county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.