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After a glorious Autumn the Year saddens : My Place is wet 

 & damp & littery ; & I look towards Winchester with Pleasure, 

 for the Evenings are long & dull ; & I am too old & dull Myself 

 for Lucubrations. I am angry that You speak so faintly about 

 your own Work, Mind, that I expect You, upon Nature ; & the 

 Bishop of London, upon Isaiah & Prophecy ; next Winter. Fail 

 not herein as You shall dc : 



The Bisbop of Oxford is a satisfied Man. He behaves well 

 in his high Station, without Laziness or Pride; and seems to 

 intend to take Seeker as his Exemplar, in continuing the Duties 

 of a Parish Priest diligently. He is laying out a Sum at 

 Cuddesden, & will be a Benefactor to that House & Place. He 

 has given up his Prebendal House at Winchester to Mr Buller, 

 & taken that in the Alley which You surveyed for me, to accom- 

 modate Mr Elvers. I shall lose my next Neighbour, & the 

 Convenience of getting a Bed for a Friend almost under ye same 

 Eoof. Mr Hare comes in his Eoom. I am charmed wth Aires- 

 ford Parsonage, but I do not covet it : It is a very expensive 

 Situation. I have not yet seen St Marie's. 



Mrs Mulso fell down a Staircase at Mr Buller's, & was much 

 bruised ; but, thank God, did not break any Bone, nor was laid 

 up. Arquebusade & Opodeldoc set her to rights. 



She and my Family join me in Love, &c. 



I am, Dear Gil, Faithfully & affectely Your's, 



J. Mulso, 



Comps. to your Neighbours, &c. 



Letter 174. 

 Eeverend Mr White, Winchester. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Nov: 17, '77. 



Dear Gil : 



If You are gone to your Winter Quarters, You have done 

 me wrong in not advertising me of it : and this will give you 

 more Expence than it needed to have done, by following You in 

 a Cross Direction. I am put upon writing just at present by 

 Eequests from a Father, & fm ye Dean of Winchester, (who is 

 as yet at St. Marie's,) it is to engage You to serve a Mr Elderton, 

 who is at present of Queen's College, & who intends to appear 

 as a Candidate at Oriell in the Eoom of Mr Head, who had a 

 Wiltshire Fellowship & is now dead ; Mr Elderton, ye Father, 

 is our Agent at Salisbury, & the young Man is known to ye Dean. 

 What little affairs I have there pass thro' the Father's hands : 

 I suppose that the Eelation of Mr Gregory's, whom I once 

 proposed to You, has by this time given up his Claim & Hopes. 

 Let me know how that Matter stands, for it would not be fair 



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