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lame. God keep your Huckle & Cruekle Bones; & save You 

 from Spavin & Windgall & every provoking as well as dire 

 Calamity, is the wish of, 



Dear Gil, Your's Afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 187. 



Kevd Mr White, Farnham Castle. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. + at Alton. July 27, 1780. 

 Dear Gil : 



I am here wth Mrs M., my two Daughters, & on Fryday 

 (i.e. Tomorrow) I expect my Son John, whom I have not seen 

 since last October. I have, or shall have, my Wife's Maidservant, 

 two Men, & three Horses. 



I reed your kind Letter, & paid your Comps. to the Bishop, 

 who said that he was glad that he had it in his Power to oblige 

 You. Here is no Mrs Chapone, nor no Mr Edd Mulso — (I beg 

 his Pardon, I mean Esqr) So that your Civilities there are not 

 yet delivered. 



You are so friendly as to make an Invitation, not knowing 

 that Nos Numerus sumus — I fancy that we shall leave this Place 

 on Wednesday next, & I will tell You presently why I am not 

 sure. Mrs Ogle's third Daughter is dying or dead. Lady Ogle, 

 whom we found here presiding, is gone over to S. Hampton on 

 this melancholy Occasion. Mrs Mulso has taken her Seat at ye 

 Head of the Table. If Lady Ogle should not come back by 

 Wednesday, we shall not probably leave the Bishop ; if She does, 

 we certainly shall. 



If your House could contain so many as we are, we could 

 come to You to a three o' Clock Dinner on Wednesday, & stay wth 

 You 'till Fryday Morng. — If it will not, tell me so fairly. If 

 You appoint Us after so precarious an Account of Ourselves, You 

 must meet Us, by Self or Proxy, at Alton, as farthur this 

 Deponent knoweth not. But there is a still farthur Circumstance 

 of trouble attends Us, & that is, that Mrs M. & I do not sleep 

 in ye same bed during Summer. 



If therefore We go by You, as we did coming, like Levites, 

 it will be from a Terror of ye great Fuss & Parade & Expence 

 that We occasion, & not from a Want of Impatience to see You 

 & your Place, & new Eoom ; which I suppose will bear visiting 

 after this Castle. But I sincerely think that You ought to wave 

 our Visit at this Time for Considerations respecting Yourself: 

 We are likewise very airy People, & if You are a Shutter of 

 Doors & Windows for your Deafness or Hecticalness, Every one 

 of us Aestuat angusto in Limite. As to Mrs M,, she is in her 

 old Way — sedet, aeternumque sedebit, Infaelix — 1 ! — You can 



