234 LETTERS TO QIIiBERT WHITE 



The beautiful! Season seems on the Dechne. It has been lovely. 

 We were favoured wth it in our Journey to Witney : we now 

 hear of Storms abroad, & of Floods that "seem occasioned by 

 Earthquakes. The Eain sets in with a brisk wind. But why do 

 I describe weather now to You ? Are we not both in the same 

 Latitude ? 



Mrs Mulso and my Fam : are well & desire to be aflftely 

 remembered to You & by You. Jack comes home this Week. 

 Mr Willis has asked me whether it would be agreeable to me that 

 he shd comply with Advice of Friends & raise the Board &c of his 

 School to £20 pr an. What can I say ? It certainly is not ; 

 but he would take it ill if I said so, nor would he alter his Plan. 

 I thought him reasonable before, I do not think him so now : 

 If he keeps up his School in Number, he must be a great Gainer 

 as it is : Could he not do That, he would want the Advance ; 

 but he forgets that he will thin his School by this Advance & 

 therefore in the End lose both in Profit & Credit. As I am 

 interested, this Item would come with an ill Grace ; but it will 

 be found true in the long Run. I have a good Opinion of Mr. 

 Willis & shall not take away my Boy from his Tuition for the 

 sake of £4 pr ann. Yet I think him wrong. 



Pray pay our Comps. to the agreeable Mrs Bassett, if still 

 with you. I am glad She has got a good Husband. — How do 

 I know it ? — why You told me so ; & you know that I am 

 strangely guided by your Judgement : Did not I give up my 

 Species & Genera & all my Latin for You ? It was no great 

 Sacrifice however. I hope You have set me right about Mr 

 Bassett. 



Farewell. I have comprehended more words in one Letter 

 than You do in Ten, but You have the Advantage in Sense. 

 I am, Dear Gil, Your's most afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Comps to Mr & Mrs Etty, the Yaldens, &c. 



Letter 143. 

 To the Revd Mr White, Winchester. 



at Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Feb : 27, 1772. 



Dear Gil : 



I last Night reed the inclosed, with a Desire of furthering 

 it to You, & of using what Interest my Friendship wth You could 

 give me in Behalf of a Candidate at Oriell College. By the 

 strange Revolutions in political Connexions Mr Woods may now 

 be in a Capacity of helping forwards any Wishes of your own, 

 for ought I know ; &, upon my word, that Suggestion is the 

 strongest that I dare to use to You on the present Occasion ; for 

 wth Mr Wood I had not more than a Neighbourly Acquaintance ; 



