46 LETTERS TO GILBEBT WHITE 



has cryed her Eyes out for Her, & has looked out another Place 

 for her if her Health would permit, but that cannot be yet, <fe 

 possibly will not be in Time. Indeed She deserves a better 

 Fate. I am glad Jo: gained Credit as a serious Man in his last 

 Visit. He only wanted a little common Sense to secure Him a 

 reasonable approbation : I always valued Him for a good Heart 

 which I think I have known Him have from a Child, but for 

 some Years He seem'd to stand upon his Head. 



I return tomorrow by Chertsy Bob to Sunbury or rather 

 Charlton. You are soon tired of what You call a Coll: Life,* 

 but I am tired of a Life which has indeed no home ; & which I 

 long to settle into domestic, with which I think I should not 

 be tired. I should then study to reconcile myself to but one 

 Change more, & that I trust a better, 'till when I shall be with 

 true affection 



Dear Gil, Sincerely Yours, 



J. Mulso. 



P.S. Let me hear of You on your getting Home, where I 

 wish you true satisfaction ; pray disperse my Congratulations 

 thro' the Family, to whom I heartily wish much Joy. 



Letter 26. 



King Square Court. 



May 1, 1751. 

 Dear Gil : 



I am obliged to You for your Kind concern for me : yet I do 

 not beleive that You allow much Obligation : It is the Friend's 

 Hour, when any Mortification has siezed upon Us. I have as 

 little Eeason as any Man (I thank God for it) to rail at the In- 

 sensibility of the World, and to think ye Execution of ye office 

 of Friendship a rare & strange Thing. No sooner have I Cause 

 to complain, than I am comforted by a Number of Friends, of 

 whose Sincerity I have ye strongest Assurance, & of whose kind 

 Endeavours I have ye most sensible Feeling. 



I cannot tell You that I am quite recovered of my Indisposi- 

 tion, but it is greatly abated ; tho' ye constant Openers which 

 I have been obliged to take have made me more tender than 

 usual, & consequently subjected Me to perpetual Colds, as I by 

 no Means would suffer Confinement : I seem to recover bodily 

 Strength, & walk again pretty well; & as I have now these last 

 three weeks been entirely amongst my London Friends, I have 

 not been permitted to relapse into Lowness of Spirits, which 

 (as You justly observe, having your Opinion seconded by the 



* Gilbert White had spent part of Michaelmas term 1750 at Oriel College, 

 where his brother Henry was now in residence as an undergraduate. 



