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Farewell. I am going to see after Neighbour Cutler who is 

 expected home Today, after being long delayed by Sickness in 

 his Journey. 'Tis a feeble Man, but Highly agreeable ! 



Our joint Loves &c attend You. Eemember Us to your good 

 Neighbours. 



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



J. Mulso. 



Letter 171. 

 Eevd Mr "White, Winchester, 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. June 1st, 1777. 



Dear Gil : 



It was from Dr Balguy's Information, (who returned to 

 Us very lately) that I learnt You had been very dangerously ill 

 in London : but my Comfort came at ye same time, for he men- 

 tioned your being recovered, & attending at ye Visitation at 

 Alton. I did not so much as know that You had been at 

 London : Pray let me know how You found all friends there, 

 & how this Illness came upon You. I am curious to know 

 whether the Eegimen that You must have been put into for your 

 Cure, had any Effect on your Deafness : I should hope it might 

 have cleared or strengthen'd some Passages. As I do not see 

 any Advertisement in the Papers, I conclude by ye Time of Year 

 that You have deferred your Publication 'till next Winter. I 

 wish you had not : Your Brother Ben : is a timid Man, & You 

 yourself are too modest & nice. The Humour for such Perfor- 

 mances will be over, & make Something agst the Merit of even 

 your Book. I feel impatient to see it, wth the Decorations of 

 Mr Grim. 



We decamp from this Place on Wednesday next, please God, 

 for Meonstoke. I have had a great deal of Attendance at this 

 Cathedrall, my Brethren having left me, & loved this present 

 World ; I am this Morning to preach here. I have been as often 

 as I could at Easton, yet not so often as I ought. 



Our Accounts of my Uncle are very indifferent & alarming : 

 when a Man of his Age calls in Physicians, every thing is to be 

 feared. He is exceedingly pulled down ; has lost his Sleep 

 & his Spirits, & his Appetite in some Degree ; yet this is only 

 owing to a Pain in his knee, which one would think might be 

 a natural Visitation of Eheumatism in the late inclement Season 

 upon a Man of Fourscore. They want to draw it down & fix 

 it in the Foot as a Gout : I beleive it is not easy to give ye Gout 

 for ye first time at that Age, nor to support ye Spirits under ye 

 Pain of it. I am a little apt to despair, & cannot see so great 

 a friend going out of the World, tho' ripe for Immortality, with- 

 out sincere Concern. I cannot but think it must be so, tho' 

 Mr BuUer does not give up Hopes of him. 



