122 LETTERS TO GILBEKT WHITE 



Title. I am sorry to hear of your Father's Deafness. Excuse 

 this being wrote in haste. Cannot You contrive to let a Boy 

 bring up the Horse when You come and make Him serviceable 

 to Yourself ? Do if You chuse it. Mrs Mulso's Love &c : 



Your's Afftely, 



I began the Cold Bath on the 13th. 



LetUr 69. 



J. M. 



Sunbury, 



July 2, 1767. 



Dear GU : 



I have just received your Letter, & have a thousand 

 Thanks to return You for the Care & Trouble that You have 

 been at for me : I daresay that I shall be quite satisfied wth the 

 Purchase, & if the Hoi-se is good A; easy, must think the Price 

 extremely reasonable. I shall look out for a Chap for ye old nag, 

 & rather demolish Him Myself than keep off my new One. I 

 have already spoken to Vesey to hold Himself in readiness to 

 pull down & cleanse. As to my new One I will send Him to 

 grass ' till You shall yourself be Witness of my Precautions. 

 But I beg of You to come, if You can, next "Week, for I have 

 been so ill of my old Complaint, that I was taken out of Church 

 in the middle of Prayers last Sunday ; & tho' I got up Heart to 

 attempt again on Fryday, I just got thro', & then was rather 

 worse than on Sunday ; so that I shall give up to You, or some 

 other Friend for some Time, fo^ it is vain to contend, and I am 

 now advised not to attempt it. If You can come to me next 

 week You will put off the getting Help from these Quarters for 

 some Time, for I know that You will undertake for me : & 

 possibly I may go down wth you for a little Jaunt into Hamp- 

 shire, when You have a Call to return thither ; but this will be 

 Subject of future Talk when You are here. I presume my 

 Weakness must be the Effect of the Air, as I have no other 

 Cause to assign for it : I have never missed one morning's 

 bathing since I began, & have had Recourse to my Valerian in 

 great Quantities. I am told that the Bishop will not go down to 

 Salisbury this Year : I don't know whether I told You that he is 

 made Clerk of the Closet to the King, who spoke to Him in the 

 kindest Manner when he did Him that Honour. These are great 

 Things, Gil, but I could take Less wth Health, & your Purchase 

 would carry about a very happy & contented Man. 



I have had more Sickness in my Family. Miss Prescott's 

 Maid, whom She brought wth Her, has had a violent Feaver: 

 Miss Prescot moved into our Bed, & we to Mrs Chardavoyne's. 

 Miss Prescot is very much recovered since She was here, & is 



