120 LETTERS TO OILBEBT WHITE 



Letter 67. 



Sunbury, 



June 1, 1757. 

 Dear Gil, 



I am the rather sorry that I have not heard fm You again, 

 because my Letter was rather a Hindrance to your purposed 

 Journey to Simbury than otherwise ; I mean so far as that we 

 could not accommodate You wth a Bed, as We were used, and 

 as we ever wish to do. So that it depends upon yourself whether 

 You will take up wth that Inconvenience. As You know that I 

 love to see You, so You may be sure that your Intention of 

 comiqg is as agreable to us as ever, & that the Trouble will only 

 attend Yourself ; and we should be the more obliged to You if 

 You could dispence wth such an Inconvenience for our Sakes, 

 especially as We can set no Term to the Time that You will be 

 kept out by Miss Prescott. She came to us on Monday last, She 

 is a very poor Creature, but greatly better than we could have 

 supposed in the little Time She has been upon ye Recovery. 

 She & Tom desire their Loves : Your being hei'e would be, I 

 think, rather an Advantage than otherwise to her, as She wants 

 every means of enlivening, & as every Friend's Face is a Balsam 

 to her ; so that upon her Score You need make no Scruples. My 

 own Father is better than he was before his last Indisposition, 

 being rather less lethargic than he was, & better of his Cough, 

 tho' he must never expect to be quite well. I am very glad that 

 Yours is tolerable, & desire my Compliments to Him & ye rest of 

 your Family, with her's who is willingly bound to be inseparable 

 from me, especially in my good wishes to You and Your's. 



But what will You say to Me, dear Gil, when I tell You that 

 We are just returned from Oxford? Is it not the Perverseness 

 of Fate that You should have been there so little a while ago & 

 yet that it would not tally wth our opportunity ! I will tell You 

 now it came to pass. On Sunday Sennight Mr and Mrs Ogle 

 came hither in their way to Oxford, whither Mr Ogle went to 

 pack off his Goods to Burton, & so to go thro' to Northampton- 

 shire. It was soon agreed that the Party would be more agre- 

 able if it was more numerous, & Mr Young was so kind as to 

 help us out in the Expence. So after Ev'ning Prayer we set out, 

 (ye Two men & their Wives) for Salt Hill : the next Day to 

 Oxford. Mr and Mrs Ogle in a Chariot, and Mrs Mulso and Self 

 in Post Chaises. We lay one Night at the Angel, & all ye Time 

 after in ye Queen's Room at Merton Coll : The Warden was so 

 obliging as to deferr a Journey to ye waters in Worcestershire 

 one Day on our Account, & left us in Possession. We were 

 Custodes vigilantissimi, being up early & late, at ye friendly 

 Invitations of several Friends, according to ye old Oxford Hospi- 

 tality. We made one little Excursion to shew Mrs Ogle Blenheim. 



