How happy we should be to see you here again! Ever, my dear Scott, your sincere friend, W.W.[56] 32.

_Topographical History_, &_c_.
LETTER TO REV.

FRANCIS WRANGHAM, HUNMANBY, NEAR BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
Grasmere, Oct.2.

1808.
MY DEAR WRANGHAM, In what are you employed--I mean by way of amusement and relaxation from your professional duties?
Is there any topographical history of your neighbourhood?
I remember reading White's _Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne_ with great pleasure, when a boy at school, and I have lately read Dr.Whitaker's _History of Craven and Whalley_, both with profit and pleasure.

Would it not be worth your while to give some of your leisure hours to a work of this kind, making those works partly your model, and adding thereto from the originality of your own mind?
With your activity you might produce something of this kind of general interest, taking for your limit any division in your neighbourhood, natural, ecclesiastical, or civil: suppose, for example, the coast from the borders of Cleveland, or from Scarborough, to Spurnhead; and inward into the country to any boundary that you might approve of.