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now the Companion of our Ev'ning Walks. They are not indeed 

 very long Ones, Mrs Mulso is not so fond as She was of very 

 long walks. She is very much Your's, & shall be very glad to see 

 You. But if possible let it be this Week. However I must not 

 trust, but must fix Gardiner for next Sunday. To give Him his 

 Due he is always ready. 



I would have You make the Horse of Service to Yourself in 

 ye Journey ; the man will be very reasonably paid by 5 Shillgs if 

 he walks but one half of his first Bargain : let me hear of You 

 & your Determinations by the first Opportunity. 



I beg my Kespects to your good Father & Friends. 



I am, Dear Gil : Afffcely Yours, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 70. 



To the Eeverend Mr G. White, Sunbury, 



at Selbourne, near Alton, Hants. July 14, 1757. 



Dear Gil : 



The Time now near approaches when I am to have the 

 Pleasure of seeing You. I need give no Orders about the Steed, 

 he will be of Use to You in your coming up, pray make Use of 

 him. Mr Vesey is now hard at Work, & the Stall is quite taken 

 down, & punctual Orders have been given for ye planeing of 

 every board & Post, & of washing wth boiling water the Boards, 

 the Wall, & Floor, & even of chipping the Wall. My late Steed, 

 with his broken wind, & greazy Feet sold for two Guineas at a 

 neighbouring Fair, & That without Jocky ship. Somebody has 

 got a bad Bargain, as Dr Bracken observes ut saepe, which is 

 with him the most favourite Citation out ot the Classics. 



We had the Bishop of Salisbury & his Family to dine with us 

 last Monday, who all enquired in a very particular manner after 

 You. They set out next Tuesday for Burton. 



I need not have troubled You with this, if it had not given me 

 an opportunity of sending my sincere Kespects to your Uncle 

 White & his Family as well as to your Father & his own. 

 Whatever be the Occasion of your Meeting together, & what- 

 ever secret affair is in Agitation, I heartily wish the best Success 

 to attend it, & as I think I partly guess at it. But I looked, my 

 dear Friend, to have You nearer the Town before now, and 

 beseiging the Portals of the Lord Keeper ; I have great Expecta- 

 tions from that Quarter for You, & his Preferment* has given me 

 particular Pleasure from knowing him to be a near Acquaintance 

 & Friend to You and Your's. Sure there are more Ways than 

 One of vacating a Fellowship ! 



* Sir Robert Henley, Lord Keeper, had become Lord Chancellor. 



