LETTER XC 149 



You never see Yorkshire when You have so true a Friend there ? 

 I will send You my best Hunter, (for I shall be a jolly Dog ;) or 

 take any other method of conveying to me a Friend, the Thoughts 

 of whom seems to aggravate ye Distance & abates in that thought 

 the Satisfaction which as a Father of a Family I ought to feel. 



Mrs Mulso knows not of this affair, or of my writing to You 

 to-day ; let me have a Lr by Tuesday next ; by that Time She 

 will know it & You may speak your Mind on ye Contents of this 

 auspicious Letter, from 



Dear Gil, Your's afftely 



J. Mulso. 



P.S. My Comps. to Miss "White & your Brothers & Mrs 

 White. Let us know how She goes on wth her Time. 



Letter 90. 

 To the Eeverend Mr White 



at Mr T. White's in Thames Street, London. Sunbury, 

 Dear Gil : Dec : 21, 1759. 



I thank You in my own and Mrs Mulso's Name, & all the 

 Friends that You are with, for your Congratulations upon our 

 late domestic Successes, & we return the Compliment to Mrs 

 White on the Birth of her Daughter ; I hope She has as good a 

 Lying-in as Mrs Mulso, who is very well. I have not yet 

 received my Presentation from Sr George, but Congrats, on all 

 Hands upon ye Promise, which is supposed as valid as Posses- 

 sion : yet I wish it was mine in Possession now ; for so many 

 troublesome Circumstances would be over. You are an inquisitive 

 Man, & fall into ye Company of many People, Let me know 

 therefore which is my Eoad to this same Thornhill ? I should 

 be glad it was to be got at by ye great York Eoad, because I 

 have a very friendly Letter from Mr Fisher at Peterboro', which 

 invites us to bait for a Night at his House, which I should be 

 very glad to do : Ease Mrs Mulso of her apprehension that her 

 House is not to be got at in Coaches, Secure Us agst Fords & 

 Eivers, & carry us safe over Mountains & by Precipices ; make 

 us easy about Drowning & breaking of Necks. We have great 

 Faith in your Topography, as if in Fact You had been every- 

 where : If we can come up by Stamford, You shall hear of it ; 

 but if we execute our Purpose of lying at Peterbro', You will find 

 that our Stay there will be only for a Eelay of Horses, or so. 



I did not think that You would have increased my Damp at 

 the Thought of going so far, by supposing that we should be 

 more separated than ever : what are a few miles more to You on 

 a cheap Eoad ? Linden* must be half way or more, & a Horse 



* Lyndon Hall, Eutland, the residence of Gilbert White's brother-in-law 

 Thomas Barker. 



