146 LETTERS TO GILBBKT WHITE 



of Weddings. Jenny has broke her Nose, but she cannot well 

 spoil it, so it does not signify. 



We beg our Compliments to Mr Etty, & our good Friends 

 at Newton. I have no more Time to add any thing than that 

 I am, 



Dear Gil, Yours afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 87. 



To the Reverend Mr White Sunbury, 



at Selbourne near Alton Hants. Novr 6, 1759. 



Dear Gil : 



Sure never Man who wrote so well as You do had ever 

 such an Abhorrence of writing ! We rack'd our Imaginations 

 to invent an Excuse for your Silence. I thought my Lr had 

 miscarried, & that you was supposing it odd & ill-bred in Us to 

 have given so much & so long Trouble without returning any 

 Thanks, but a Lr from Salisbury & ye Sight of my Sister set me 

 at Ease ; I heard You had been there again & had mentioned the 

 Receipt of it. In short You will imagine, tho' You begin to hate 

 to describe, how uneasy We were for near two months ; when at 

 last your Letter came, without any Apology, or any Notice of so 

 unkind a Silence on your Part. It is well for You that You 

 mentioned so engaging a Party as that of Miss White's, Your 

 Brother's and Your's at Sunbury : It is so agreable to Us, that 

 it should have had an immediate Answer, if it had been in my 

 Power to have given it : But an Accident has happened that 

 obliged me to demurr for a while : Mrs Donne & my Sister 

 have been here some Time, and ray poor Sister has been seized 

 wth a Feaver, of which She is still ill, bus upon ye mending 

 Hand ; She has put ofif the Fit by the Bark, & we hope has little 

 more than Kitchen Physic now to go thro'. If this had turned 

 out a more serious affair than it has done, You will guess how we 

 must have been distressed, especially as Mrs Mulso draws near 

 her Time : But as it is, supposing my Aunt & Sister do not 

 go, which in all Probability they will, before You set out, we can 

 still provide a bed for Miss White, & it will give them an addi- 

 tional Pleasure to see You here. But remember — & pray Miss 

 White jogg your Brother, & pray, Harry & Captain, worry ye 

 Gentleman, till He writes us word of the exact Day, & whether 

 We shall expect You to spend more than One night, or whether 

 we shall secure the Stage or Copland's Chaise, that our Time 

 may not be spent in the disagreable Circumstance of providing 

 for your going away. Write therefore ye Day & ye Time of Day 

 that You will be here : If You come in Chaises, there is no 

 Doubt that if You will set out in good Time & not have too much 



