168 LETTBBS TO OILBBBT WHITE 



The Post waits for my Letter. I am sorry I have no Frank 

 Our Loves & best wishes attend You and Your's. Write soon. 



I am, dear Gil, Afiftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 102. 



Thornhill, 



April 18, 1762. 

 Dear Gil: 



Your chearfull & ingenious Letter has been a Reviver of 

 my Spirits, which has been in a very indifferent State of late, 

 being kept under by a constant Complaint in my Head : I have 

 been bloodied & dosed secundum artem ; & tho' not so stout as a 

 Yorkshire Blood should be, yet I hope I am in the way to 

 hold the Rectory a long Time. I hope my Brother Rector of 

 Fifield* will change his for a better under the Patronage of my 

 Ld Chancellour ; in ye mean Time we sincerely wish him joy of 

 the present Preferment. How agreable do You Men of Tast 

 make every Place You come at ? Your Description of Tidworth 

 made me think of your Prints of the Antidiluvian Ages ; & they 

 conveyed simple & rural Images, which amuse & deceive the 

 Fancy ; but yet Tidworth may be exceeded, & perhaps none 

 since Adam have seen so fine a Scene as Mr Morris's Gardens. 

 We have a young Lady at Wakefield who is just returning into 

 your Uncle's Neighbourhood, her Name is Burleigh, & She is the. 

 Daughter of a Clergyman, I think Minister of Chilton ; t She is a 

 very agreable sweet tempered Girl, & She is very fond of us & 

 we of Her ; Your Lr lies before me, & the account of your Ewes 

 & Lambs reminded me of Her, as She lives upon the Downs. 



And now, my dear Friend, Mrs Mulso & myself do beg the 

 Favour of You so to contrive your Matters that we may see You 

 at Thornhill this Summer : that is, at any Time from the Receipt 

 of this Letter : It is true I am just going to new floor a Bed 

 Chamber, but it is not there that I would lay You. I have now, 

 putting down, a Melon frame above ten feet long, which with 

 ye Glazing, &c : cost me three Pounds twelve Shillings ; I hope 

 You will think yourself sumptuously situated, for I assure You 

 it is the most extravagant Room that I have belonging to me 

 & the most in modern Tast : This is to be your Bed ; the Room 

 is hung with Green, a little enlivened ; for the Hedge is com- 

 posed of Yew & Holly that surrounds my Frames : I shall call 

 in upon You when the Heat is not too intense, but I am afraid 



* Harry White. 



t Chilton Candover, Hants, 4 or 5 miles from Bradley, Charles White's 

 living. 



