LETTER CXIX 199 



Face of our Country from looking so grand as Your's. Yet 

 Mrs Cbapone is much smitten wth it. 



My Wife & Sister desire to be remembered in a kind manner 

 to you. My Sister challenges You to fetch her back, after 

 a long stay here. This last is what your old friend Mrs Mulso 

 & Myself insist upon, if you can come at all. We love ye word 

 Come & hate the word Go. 



I am sorry I have no Frank for You. Sr George was lately 

 here, but I could not ask him to my House because of Mrs 

 Mulso's being so ill ; & I could not so well set Him to franking 

 in the little Time I spent wth Him in other Houses. I am bub 

 middling in Health Myself, but ever, my dear Gil, 



Perfectly & afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 119. 



To the Eeverend Mr White, Thornhill. 



at Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Aug : 28 — 65. 



Dear Gil : 



I have not yet caught my Baronet to get a Frank, & yet 

 tho' I have Nothing to tell You worth eight Pence, I never feel 

 disposed to omit writing for so long a Time as you do; Your 

 answer of Aug : 2d was to a Lr of Mine of May 19th. Now tho' 

 I must agree to that necessity which has set us at a Distance 

 & therefore reuder'd our personal Conferences very difficult, yet 

 I can not resist the Desire of making Use of the happy Inter- 

 course that Letters give to Friends. 



I give up the affair of seeing You at Thornhill in the Year 

 1765 : but not the Hopes of seeing you entirely. And I desire 

 you now to suspend your Intention of Coming hither unless 

 you can do it very soon ; because, if God grants Us Life & 

 Ability, I purpose to pass most of this winter in London or 

 Chelsea, wth Mrs Mulso & my eldest Daughter; & am settling 

 my affairs accordingly. I shall therefore hope somehow or other 

 to get a Sight of You in the South. As to coming to Selbourne 

 it will be out of the Question; for as I do not purpose to go 

 Southward 'till the End of Octr & return cum Hirundine prima, 

 the meer Spot of Selbourne will not be so inviting as the Thought 

 of seeing the Master of it, which, as you have many friends in 

 Town, I hope You will contrive to give me the Pleasure of. In 

 the first Part of my Time I intend to sojourn wth my Brother 

 Mulso, & the latter wth the Bishop of Winton. I speak of this, 

 because I shall be more my own Master in my Brother's House, 

 than the Bishop's, tho' I know that You would be well received 

 at Both. I suppose You may have seen my Lord at Farnham, 

 as I find he is there, & has been some little Time. 



