150 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



can go any where. It is impossible but that your very curiosity 

 must bring You to see Us : what ! the brave Mercians, & ye 

 Castella Brigantum left unseen by a Man who will send Miles 

 for a huge Stone or a knarly Root of a Tree? Nothing but 

 Death or Marriage will make me beleive it — I was going to say 

 I hope You are not near either, but I mean the first ; as to the 

 last, remember that Joumics are good for breeding wovien (your 

 own Plan,) & You will have but a bad Excuse 'till your Children 

 multiply. I hear good Things of my House & Situation ; it some 

 of my Friends have set up my Post Chaise for me ; but I rein in 

 my Fancy more soberly, & leave this hard driving to the fiery 

 Geniuses of ye warm South, who precipitate ye Bace too eagerly 

 for me, — Neque audit Currus habenas. 



I hope Miss "White's & your Constitutions have by this Time 

 amicably met in a reasonable Medium k that You will set out for 

 Linden in good Heart. You have our good wishes for a happy 

 Meeting of your Friends in Rutland, to whom our seasonable 

 Comps. They attend likewise the Friends You are now with. 

 I am, Dear Gil, Afiftely Your's, 



J. M. 



P.S. Mr Young's Comps. He is impatient to go to Yorkshire. 



Letter 91. 



To the Revd Mr White 



at Mr White's, at the Bridge Foot, Thames Street. 



Sunbury, 

 Dear Gil, Janry 18, 1760. 



Mrs Mulso having been extremely ill wth a Rheumatism 

 in her Side and Hip has prevented my being in Town, as I find 

 You expected. I should not have thought of the Pleasure of 

 seeing You, if I had come, for I imagined You got to Rutland 

 this Week or more. I shall be in Town next Monday <%; at the 

 Bishop's : I do not know whether Mrs Mulso will be able to 

 accompany Me ; but as I hope She is now in a Way to be well, 

 She will soon follow me, for we must use the present Opportunity 

 of having a Bed at the Bishop's, as my Wife would be afraid of 

 going into Lodgings ; & as we have a very kind Invitation 'till ye 

 Ogles come, which will be the Beginning of next Month. I am 

 sorry to hear your Sister is so poorly, & that your young Niece is 

 so unpromising ; but let not Mrs White despair ; for Nothing 

 could be more so than my Jenny, & She has never had a Day's 

 Illness since that first Struggle. 



Sr George is not come to Town & I have not yet got my 

 Presentation, so I cannot tell when I shall set out upon my 



