210 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



receive a Convert from Popery to the Communion of our Church, 

 I have my Form from the Bishop of Oxford. He will visit here 

 on June 3d & Confirm. The Bp of Winton has deferred his Visit 

 'till the End of the Year, which I am not sorry for. 



My Yorkshire Servant is about to leave me. I do not beleive 

 you can help me wth a genteel & faithfull Servant from your 

 Parts at not above ten Pounds pr an. & no Vails, but washed 

 at home. If you can, do. He must know Something of Horses, 

 tho' I have another Servant to take part of yo Trouble off his 

 Hands. 



Mrs Mulso presents her Love to you, & says You have forgot 

 her. My Children talk of you. I thank God we have gone on 



fretty well in ye main, tho' Mrs Mulso was very poorly while 

 was in London, & like a good Wife did not let me know it 

 that I might be the easier. 



Tom Mulso stands venal as an Author.* Ned has a little 

 Advance as Secretary of the Lying-in Charity. I write in a 

 great Hurry, but I am very desirous of hearing about You, being 

 now as ever, 



Dear Gil, Your's afftely 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 128. 



To the Eeverend Mr White, Witney. 



at Selborne near Alton, Hants. June 2, 1768. 



Dear Gil : 



I received your kind Letter from London ; I find by 

 One from my Brother that he had a Peep at You & that was all ; 

 I am sorry that we could not be in Town together. Mrs Mulso 

 joins me in many Thanks for your kind Invitation to Selborne, 

 but we must decline it this Year, many Causes us thereunto 

 moving, as the Lawyers say. As to ye Time that you mention, 

 it would not suit us at all, as we shall have Company at the 

 Time wth Us ; & in the latter part of ye year We expect the 

 Bishop of Winton. Our Servants too are of a Sort, not to be 

 left at home without a Mistress, one is gone, another going, 

 & I do not hear of one that I like at present. In short, tho' 

 no Man beats you at playing the Master of a large family of 

 friends, yet You do not yet know the DiflSculties of managing 

 a family of Servants & Children, & how hard it is to leave them 

 prudently. So that We are under a Necessity of waving your 

 Favour at present ; but this You may depend upon, that I long 

 to see both You and your Improvements ; & that I will not slight 

 a good Opportunity when it offers of coming to Selborne. 



• Of a very dull romance, " Callistus ; or the Man of Fashion, and 

 Sophronius ; or the Country Gentleman, in three Dialogues." Benjamin 

 White was the publisher. 



