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severe Touches of ye Eheumatism ; ib is now dreadfully near my 

 Head, where I dread it's Attacks the most. I write in Pain, yet 

 I would not delay to answer your Letter, & to assure that I am. 



Dear Gil, Ever afftely your's, 



J. Mulso. 

 P.S. Mrs Mulso's Love & That of my young Folks attends 

 you. 



Letter 141. 



To the Reverend Mr White Winchester. 



at Selborne near Alton, Hants. Sepr 1, 1771. 



Dear Gil : 



I am very much obliged to You for your Letter, as it is 

 a Mark of the Assiduity with which you watch over my Interest, 

 & the friendly Concern that You feel for my Welfare. The 

 Bishop of Winton dined wth Us last Monday, & we have seen 

 him several Times since, but nothing has transpired with respect 

 to Meonstoke. It is three Weeks since it became vacant. As 

 to Myself, I am entirely out of ye Question, as far as I know 

 & beleive : not being even thought of in ye whole Affair. Mr 

 Buller would certainly take it if it was oifer'd to him. You will 

 say Nothing of all this : I hope there is more feasible Scheme 

 in Agitation wth Regard to my Bror T. but it is immature, & 

 he knows nothing of it himself. Therefore I pray You not to 

 hint it to any Body. We had a Lr from Sisr Chapone lately, 

 who has been much hurt by ye Death of Dr Sandford who 

 married Miss Chapone ; but She is better, as I hear my Sister 

 Mulso is ; Tom is very well. 



I thank You very much for your Kindness to my Son ; I 

 hope he behaved well wth You. He has never wrote to me, 

 except once, since he left me ; So that I hear of his Excursions 

 by other Hands. I hope to see him tomorrow, as Mr. Willis 

 said that he could bring him over with him ; He himself comes 

 to attend the Event of the College Election, where his Son is 

 One of the Candidates : I shall then hear more by word of 

 Mouth. 



My Brother Ned has been in these Parts lately, & left us 

 yesterday : My Bror Wm Young is now wth Us. Mrs. Mulso, 

 , Myself, Jenny & Ned went to Mr Baker''s at Houghton ; we 

 stayed about 5 or 6 days, & left Ned there when we came away. 

 We had a very agreeable Time of it, the Country is very pleasant 

 on One Side of Houghton, but too plain & raw for me on the 

 Wiltshire Side. Can You avoid coming over this Week to our 

 Oratorios ? Are You obturatis auribus ? — If You are not, I am. 

 For I have relapsed into my Deafness, which is always attended 

 wth Confusion & low Spirits ; & I am now writing to You, while 



