116 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



still, & am advised to it for a Month longer. Mrs Mulso is at 

 present pretty well, She has been very tender & subject to Colds 

 all the Winter which has been a very severe One here. Mr 

 Young is pretty well. My Wife thinks with a great deal of 

 Pleasure of the Promise You give Us of a Visit in the Summer ; 

 It will be a long One to Us without such friendly Interpositions, 

 for our Family will be more dispersed than it had been for some 

 Summers. I hope Mrs Mulso will not be ill again in the Way 

 You saw her ; at present there are no Expectations that Way, 

 so that the Summer will be her own. I hope your Family are 

 all well : My Aunt Thomas who has been very ill is better again ; 

 the rest pretty well. Tom is preparing for the Circuit by Kides 

 in a Morning. I creep about a little in that way, since the Frosts 

 have broke, with Mr. Whiteway & a Neighbour or two. Pray 

 remember that my Horse is on his last Legs, and if You see a 

 tempting Creature, be so disinterested as to let me have Him. 

 Miss Thomas is busy chusing Household Furniture, but when 

 She intends to use it at Burton I cannot yet say. 



You say well that Ogle's Preferment''' is a Gain to me ; it 

 is so : for I am convinced that 'till his Portion is filled up, mine 

 must stand as it is ; but I am very happy that it is as it is ; Yet 

 I should be very glad of a Stall at Peterboro', that little Belvi- 

 dere I thought had been nearer to me than I find it ; It showed 

 prettily to the Eye, which passed over the Inequalities of the 

 Ground between. But the Suddenness of my marriage when 

 I least expected it, has taught me to hope on without much 

 Impatience ; I may come upon it or some better Seat, by a By- 

 Path when I do not think of it. Mrs Mulso's Love with mine 

 attend You and Your's. : 



I am, Dear Gil : Your's Affectionately, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 65. 



Sunbury, 



March 19, 1757. 

 Dear Gil : 



I have just been at Walton wth a Party of Ladies, & Mrs 

 Mulso was One ; we walked, which is as much as to say that 

 She is pretty well & stout ; tho' of late much tortured by the 

 Tooth Ach : & I am just sat down to answer your Letter, which 

 arrived this morning. But first I thank you for the Hare, which 

 by weight & Scent & Look was a very fine One ; but by Tast is to 

 be commended by Mr. Turner, to whom it was a very acceptable 

 Present, & therefore You will excuse Us for having made it to 

 Him. 



* This preferment was the valuable living of Burton-Latimer, Northants. 

 Mr. Newton Ogle was about to marry a daughter of Bishop Thomas. 



