The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the REV. John Mulso

John Mulso, Holt-White R

ISBN 10: 117677493X / ISBN 13: 9781176774933

Edité par Nabu Press, USA, 2012

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• Titre: The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the REV. John Mulso
• Éditeur: Nabu Press, USA
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 117677493X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781176774933
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: Reprint.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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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 sedition of the Selborne published in 1850. Mr. Jesse, after stating that Mrs. Chapone sbrother, John Mulso, was White smost 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 sson was applied to for Mr. White scorrespondence, the mortifying answer was re turned that they had all been destroyed. Mr. Mulso sletters we understand are still remaining. The letters from Mulso came into the possession of John White, the publisher, a nephew of the naturalist. From him they passed to his son, the late Eevd. 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 sbook, 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 syoungest brother Henry, and at his instance they are now published. John Mulso sfather, 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
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