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whom I mounted partly to reconcile me to a Saddle, that I might 

 not be quite lost to Goodness when I come to Selbourne ; If You 

 had seen my stiif Figure after so long an Interval of Biding, 

 You would thought that I held Eiding to be solenne Viris Opus. 



Our Compliments attend your Household, whom we very 

 much desire to see & be a Part of. Stevens has forsaken me 

 without warning & is gone Chaplain to a Man of War. Mr 

 Eichd Gardiner has undertaken my Curacy : I like the Man, & 

 am glad that this little affair will he serviceable to him, but 

 I am not satisfied in all Points, I take Him to be 

 — much Divinity without a Nofls. 



I am, Dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. M. 



Letter 86. 



Sunbury, 



Sepr 12, 1759. 

 Dear Gil : 



Mrs Mulso & myself have a multitude of Thanks to return 

 You, for your long & kind Course of Hospitality & Friendliness 

 that You have shown Us ; to Your excellent Sister, your Brothers, 

 Mr Cane, & all who help'd to make our Time pass very happily 

 away, & one of the most agreable of Places still more agreable. 

 And these Thanks ought in Ceremony to be deliver'd in full 

 Detail ; but I am not good at Compliments, and the kind Offices 

 that You have all exercised to me & my wife sink deeper than 

 to be poured out in verbal Expression ; the Feel that I have 

 for them is amongst the Things 



— Quod nequeo monstrare, & sentio tantum. 



I therefore pass on to let You know that Mrs Mulso' s purple 

 Gown caught no manner of Harm by our Journey. We did 

 not get Home 'till Six o'clock, but we made a long Stop at 

 Bagshot where we dined, & began to regret your Bread, Beer, 

 & Southampton Port. We found Mr Young & our Child very 

 well ; Mr Y : enquired after You, & seem'd rather to wonder 

 at our Coming than to expect Us. As the Day cleared up, & 

 we left our Friend Harrey very well, we hope He got no Harm 

 by his wetting in the Morning. I find Myself rather the worse 

 for being jumbled & heated by setting so long, but otherwise 

 pretty well. 



We meet as yet wth no great addition of News ; the Quanti- 

 ties of Stores taken in America are amazing ; No news of Quebeck 

 yet, but great Expectations.* 



We find our Neighbours here very well, & a roaring Trade 



* Quebec was taken on the day this letter was written. 

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