Autograph letter signed : Lyndon, to the Rev. Henry White, 1785 April 20.

Responding to his letter to his daughter in which "...you took notice of the severity of this last winter, which was certainly uncommonly frosty, but was I think more remarkably so in Hampshire than here. I here however for your entertainment send an account of the particulars of several severe winters which have past under my observation;" describing the years of most severe frost from 1683 through 1784-85; describing the winters of "The most remarkable snows" from 1747 though 1784-85; commenting on the spring thaw and noting, after his signature, the dates from March 17 through April 16 on which he heard a blackbird sing and saw wheatears, violets, butterflies & Humble bees, the first swallow, the first martin and the first wasp.