180 LETTERS TO OILBERT WHITE 



a Scheme of Entertainment : I think I told you about calling on 

 Fisher. 



Be so good as to disperse Mrs Mulso's & my Love thro' your 

 numerous family : as I think my Ld Bishop will be returning 

 from the North about ye latter end of Sepr or Beginning of 

 Octr, and as we have promised to meet him at York, it will be a 

 good opportunity for You to meet him wth Us & see ye Place ; 

 I premised ye Likelihood of this Event to him & my Aunt, 

 & tney will be glad to see You. 



I am, dear Gil, Ever afftely Your's, 



J. M. 



Letter 108. 



Thornhill, 



Oct : 3, 1763. 

 Dear Gil : 



I have seldom been so long in answering any Letter of 

 your's, as this last, which bears date Sepr 7. But I have been 

 a good deal from home, wth Mrs Mulso & my two eldest children, 

 at a Friend's House at Wakefield ; we went to be present at 

 ye Eaces ; but ye last week was chiefly taken up in going to 

 York to meet my Uncle & Aunt, & accompanying them from 

 thence to Doncaster, in their way Southward : we had then 

 20 miles to Wakefield. We got safe home, I thank God, on 

 Saturday last, & found my little George a little better, who had 

 been suffering much in cutting his first Tooth. I read to ye 

 Bishop your Letter, wherein you relate your Proceeding wth 

 your Patron. He was a little disconcerted at my dear father's 

 having given you so much Information, as to make it appear to 



ye Ld C , if it ever comes to be known, that it must come 



from my Uncle ; so you must be very cautious for his sake (& 

 Mine too) how you let this affair transpire. But I said, if no 

 Body would be friend enough to explain these Fracas to the 

 sufferers, who went on in total Ignorance ; how shd they account 

 for these changes, or how alter an offensive Conduct, which they 

 themselves did not perceive ? You know ye Bishop : He is ye 

 most cautious & fearfull of interfering & giving offence of any 

 Man in England. I repeat it therefore, be cautious for him that 

 he is not called in Question in this Business. You need not 

 doubt that I urged my own Opinion of you to him, as far as 

 was decent : & tho' not one word was said in Eeturn, I hope it 

 will operate in Time. I heartily wish it may ; that my Friend- 

 ship may not have been quite unfruitfull to you in point of 

 Interest. You express a great deal more thankfullness than ye 

 Case requires. I could not do less, if my Professions of Love 

 for you were sincere ; I only am sorry I can do no more, to show 



