236 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



resided most in Yorkshire. I wish your Brother long Life & 

 happy in it, or in a better, & more conveniently situated for 

 seeing his Friends. In Propriety he ought to have been placed 

 more Southerly after 16 years Residence in Andalusia, yet I hope 

 he will receive true Pleasure in this present Call home. Your 

 Nephew Jack seems to know but little about You, tho' he is so 

 near, for he said not a Word of your Illness, which I am sorry 

 to hear of. How did You manage about Mr Wood ? or rather, 

 I may presume, in Mr Znice's Stile, you did not manage at all. 

 That Gentleman has been here lately, & is to be so again in a 

 short Time ; I fancy he will place his Son wth Dr Warton. 



I am glad You are to have my Sister soon, because after ye 

 Visit to Selbourne, She is to migrate to Us, She says indeed 

 for ttoo or three days, putting a Scratch under ye words, & pre- 

 tending to be peremptory, but She knows a Person as peremptory 

 as herself, h almost as sawcy ; & I hope he will be able to make 

 her alter that Note, so his Scratch may be as strong as her 

 Scratch. I have a Chaise building here, & I should have been 

 glad to have lodged it for her at Alresford, but it will not 

 be finished by the Time that We may hope to see her, which is 

 fatiguing enough : tho' as my Cattle are exceeding old, it might 

 be more fatiguing to ride in it. I am afraid it will cost me 

 £70. I could have liked to have joined the Income of West meon 

 to that of Meonstoke, but I hear that a Mr Prior read in there 

 last Sunday : This Gentleman is quite a Stranger, so that — &c 

 &ca. — Miss Letty Sandford is wth Us, but She will return to 

 London soon. There is a young Gentleman fm Oxford who 

 came only to deliver a Lr from her Cosin : was not That polite ? 

 We receive him as a polite Man, & are very commodious. He 

 is made welcome to our Board; as to Bed, — no, it is not come 

 to That yet. 



Mrs M. joins me in affte good wishes for you. I began to 

 think that You had forgot that we were moved into Hampshire. 

 We meet my Sister Mulso with our warmest Love, & desire our 

 Comps. to your good Neighbours. 



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



J. Mulso. 



Letter 145. 

 To the Revd Mr White, Winchester, 



at Selbourne near Alton, Hants. June, 19, 1772. 



Dear Gil : 



My Sister Mulso informed us, that you left her in 

 Possession of your House, & was gone to see the Issue of an 

 Illness of poor Mrs Snooke's. I think I have allow'd Time to 

 have it decided whether She is to take a farthur Lease of Life 

 or no ; & as I do not see her Death in ye Papers or hear of it 



