164 LETTERS TO GILBBBT WHITE 



Book i8 filled for ye Day, for I do not expect to be served first. 

 All our sincere good wishes attend You & Your's. 



I am, Dear Gil, Afifectly Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 100. 



Thornhill, 



Oct. 29, 1761. 

 Dear Gil : 



If I did not sooner answer your friendly Enquiries about 

 my unfortunate Sister Chapone, it was not only that I had no 

 Frank or means of getting one (which however on such an 

 Occasion I know You would not have minded) but because our 

 Accounts of her have held Us in such Suspense about her Life, 

 that I thought it no proper Time to give any Description of her. 

 Her cruel Loss She bore with the most patient Resignation, 

 but tho' in her Distress She sinned not, nor charged Ood 

 foolishly, yet it was of that deep kind, that her Constitution, 

 before hand weak, and additionally hurt by a close and mourn- 

 full attendance, was incapable of resisting it. Mr Chapone died 

 at Lodgings at Islington, where my two Sisters were retired for 

 the Benefit of the Waters there, & of ye Air. A sharp Feaver 

 carried him off in about ten Days. I may venture to say that 

 He was a very great Loss to his Profession, as he certainly 

 was an irreparable one to my Sister. Upon moving to my 

 Brother's House in Town She caught Cold, which flung her 

 into a Feaver, under which She had suffered so much, that Our 

 last Account was that She had just begun to recover her 

 Memory & Understanding, & the Doctors thought it probable 

 that She would recover, but by very slow Degrees. I intend 

 to leave open my Letter, 'till the Post comes tomorrow that 

 I may, as I hope, insert a more favourable Account. 



My Brother Mulso left Us yesterday, after having pass'd a 

 Summer that would have been a very agreable one to Him (as 

 he was so kind as to say,) if the latter Part had not been 

 embittered by these sad Tidings fm Town. It was very fortunate 

 for Him, & of course for Us All, that he was at such a Distance 

 from such a Scene : my Sister Chapone is greatly his Favourite, 

 & I think it would have had a cruel Effect upon his Health to 

 have been within Reach of Her. As it was, he continued, thank 

 God, ill good Health ; & by Riding & Company, beguiled some 

 thoughts that might have otherwise hurt Him. He will yet be 

 above three weeks before he arrives in Town, as he visits Mr 

 Fisher at Peterboro', & afterwards his Estate in Northampton- 

 shire. 



Your Employment has of late been of a more chearful 



