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Method; but as it cannot yet take Place & the Year is much 

 upon ye Decline, I think it properer both for you & ourselves to 

 decide that this Visit must be put oif, tho' even to ye tenth Year : 

 I feel unhappy at ye Date. 



We wish you Joy of your Sister's having succeeded so well 

 in the Inoculation of her Children : would to God mine had 

 passed that Ordeal in the natural Way : I cannot yet reconcile 

 myself to any other. As Mrs Woods has now left you, I will 

 not charge you wth any Complts to her. I am glad you have 

 had the Company of Mr Skinner and Mr Sheffield r The World 

 will, I presume, be the better hereafter for your joint Labours. 



My Brother Mulso has lately been wth Us, & unfortunately, 

 chose to turn his Horses out to Grass. His Portmanteau & 

 double Horse in endeavouring to get over a Ditch broke his 

 Thigh, & was obliged to be demolished that ev'ning ; so that he 

 has sustained a considerable Loss & so has my Sister Mulso, 

 who availed herself much of this poor Creature. You heard, 

 I imagine, of his House in Town being broke open & his losing 

 his silver Candlesticks & some other Things of less Value : So 

 poor Tom is out of Luck this Year. 



Your Quotation from Mr Pope's posthumous Pieces came in a 

 little abruptly, but has it's Beauties : Yet I cannot quite convey 

 Myself naturally to ye Evening Colonnades ; the Thought seems 

 to be foisted upon ye Fragment since the Improvements at 

 Vauxhall. 



My Brother William Young is now wth me & seems pleased 

 with this place, which is new to him. My Brother Mulso returned 

 to my Sister at Streatly a week ago after a short stay here. 



Do not, I pray you, let our disappointing your kind Expecta- 

 tion of seeing Us, put you out of Conceit with our good Intention : 

 I assure you that I could have stepp'd into ye Chaise with vast 

 Glee to begin my Journey. And I hope we shall see You when- 

 ever Your Convenience serves, to settle the Operations of an 

 ensuing Campaigne. I hope to hear from You soon, meantime 

 wish you all Health & Happiness, & wth the sincere Affection of 

 all here join That of, 



Dear Gil, Your's Afftely 



J. Mulso. 



P.S. Aug : 28. 



I reed your second obliging Lr last night, I am glad that 

 I had got this ready agst it came, as my Conscience has a less 

 Load, having acquitted herself before this last Demand came 

 upon her. Nothing has happened since last Night to make us 

 change our Necessity of Kefusal, tho' this new Instance of your 



• Naturalists; the former of C.C.O., and the latter of Worcester College, 

 Oxford, who were visiting Gilbert White. 



