LETTEE XCIX 163 



My Father came to Us in ye Beginning of May & will not 

 leave Us till ye Beginning of Novbr or thereabouts. My Brother 

 came off the Circuit from Stafford, & travelling by Manchester 

 saw some of the wildest & finest Parts of our Neighbourhood. 

 But he & Miss Chardavoyne set out for London next week. 

 Tom has found Employment for his Pencil, here, as well as he 

 did at Selbourne ; & thinks the Face of this Country one of the 

 finest that he ever saw. I hope to show it to You next Year, 

 since I am not to expect You this Year. As to your Improve- 

 ments, I see them all : I know your Spot so well, that I trace you 

 thro' all your alterations. But you are happy to get so many 

 Friends about you to see them ; You are not much out of Luck 

 that my Sister Chapone was not one of them ; for She has been 

 but poorly lately, & has been in Lodgings at Islington with my 

 Sister Mulso, for ye Benefit of Air and Water. 



Your Bishop will be at Farnham Castle in ye Summer, but 

 will be at Chelsea, I fancy, the greater Part of the Year. He 

 is at present confined near London to be in Keadiness to attend 

 his Majesty's Wedding, or he would have been now in Berkshire 

 to attend his youngest Daughter's. 



Mrs Mulso & Miss Chardavoyne set out to-morrow Morning 

 & go into Lodgings at Wakefield to assist at ye Diversions of the 

 Kace Week : Their Cloaths were yesterday carried over in a 

 Cart, for they exceeded a Horse Load a good deal : The dear 

 Creatures not only always travell wth a Bundle, (as Mr 

 Richardson observes) but a pretty large Bundle too. My 

 Fathers, Brother, Self and Children keep House. My Girl & 

 Boy thrive in this air, & are stout & active for their Time of Life. 

 My Harvest is pretty well got in ; but if not, this week being 

 always a Time of eloping for the Servants as well as my Wife, 

 I should not have advanced much, if Mrs Mulso had not left me. 

 I opened ye Campaign of Coursing yesterday : we killed only 

 one Hare; & as we were on Horseback three Hours, & found 

 only a Brace, Tom thinks but meanly of the Diversion : as 

 to me, I look upon it in ye Light of the pleasantesc Physic that 

 I take. My Father has had a sad accident, for his riding Mare 

 has been lamed this quarter of a Year, & there is no Prospect 

 of her being able to carry him home, if She ever carries him 

 again : It is a great Pity, for I think he never was so well 

 mounted. 



I desire that You would make a better Use of this Winter 

 than You did of the last. How can Mice-' & You sit on one 

 Side & t'other on the other Side of the Fire, when You ought to 

 be both at ye great Table in ye middle of ye Room, she writing 

 to her Lover & You to your Friend ? I mean after your Journal 



* Miss White, Gilbert White's only unmarried sister. 



