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to say to ye Marquiss of Tullibardin that You may dine wth Us 

 at three o'Clock. So let us know : for we may have an Engage- 

 ment to Keinton Park or somewhere, if You do not. The 

 Chertsea Stage goes from hence only on Monday's, Wednesdays 

 & Frydays : Copland often engaged : Be punctual for once. 



We have had the Pleasure of a short Visit fm Mrs Bristow & 

 Miss Culverton ; we were glad to see them, & thought it much 

 too short. Mrs Mulso's Love and Services, wth mine, attend 

 Miss White, Yourself & Family. We wish Harry Joy, rather of 

 his Prospects than his Gains.* But it was quite right to take it. 

 1 have a Hurry of People about me, and write miserably ; I have 

 suffered agonies since I saw You wth my Complaint & have been 

 to Town wth the Fear of being cut for a Fistula, but I was 

 released fm that Fear, & am now better for the Medicines pre- 

 scribed. Mrs Mulso pretty well, Mr Young, & Jenny. Our 

 Visitors desire Comps. and we desire that You would not out of 

 an Excess of wisdom think of going by Us, as You will rob us of 

 a great deal of Pleasure & give Us no Trouble in coming at all 

 Events. 



I am, Dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 88. 



Sunbury, 



Novr 17, 1759. 

 Dear Gil : 



Tho' You gave me an opportunity of being idle wth 

 Kegard to writing, by letting me know that You would come to 

 Sunbury if You heard nothing more from me, yet I will not take 

 advantage of it, & be deficient in letting Miss White know how 

 glad Mrs Mulso will be to see her at Sunbury on Tuesday next : 

 Mrs Donne & my Sister left us yesterday morning ; my Sister 

 was pretty well recovered of her Feaver, but weak in body and 

 Spirits : Miss White will now have a Bed in our House ; as to 

 You & Harry, I must bespeak a Bed for You at ye Flower-Pot, or 

 some such genteel Place ; for as You know, I have but one spare 

 bed. I am glad to find that You have some apprehensions of my 

 wrath ; but as it is good to have a Giant's strength, tho' not to 

 use it like a Giant, so my wrath is entirely appeased since I have 

 heard of your Coming & bringing your Sister; for I should be 

 ashamed of falling aboard of Parsons & Magpies before Her, 

 whose Temper seems of ye sweetest & most pacific Kind. 



I desire You to be so kind as to bring Gibson's Letter wth 

 You, that we may hear it, if there are no Secrets in it. I 



* Harry White at this time, apparently, became curate-in-charge of 

 N. Ted worth, Wilts, with residence there. 



