308 LETTERS TO GILBEBT WHITE 



I suppose, the Psurtridge Season : for this Place allows of no 

 other amusement ; Death & Sickness are in our Borders. We 

 miss poor Cutler much ; I have visited his Successor, & I feel a 

 Partiality for him, for he has in his Ways a Resemblance to you 

 & your family ; I need not say that he is a very ingenious Man. 

 But he has no family ; only an old Mother lives with him of 

 whom he is very carefuU ; & his filial Piety is an additional 



Resemblance of You. Mr F is not yet come to Waltham, 



but poor Bale fears a Dismission. 



Am I to dye before your little favourite work comes out? 

 Des aliquid famae ; & don't be su tedious & phlegmatic. 



Have You been with your Brother Thomas, & is he now with 

 You? If so, present my best Services to him. I am much 

 concerned to hear of the Illness of Mr Yalden : I hope Mr 

 Etty & his family are well : Is his Son returned from the 

 E : Indies ? and how does he like the Varieties of this Globe ? 

 We do not much resemble ye E : Indies at present, as we are 

 forced to sit by a Fire most days to banish the Damps. How 

 do You go on? Will your waving Hangers unchill your Fingers? 

 if they are flexible, pray employ them wth ye Pen, if you cannot 

 come to answer ye many Questions I have put to You. I can 

 hardly write for ye Noise in my Chimney : — 



— •' up the Vale 

 " Sighs the sad Genius of the coming Storm " — 

 " the Owl ia olamoroua all ye live-long Day " — 



but Madge is a sort of favourite of ours & kills our Mice in the 

 Bam, & keeps watch in her sombrous Sycamore. 



Receive our Loves & best wishes ; and shatter'd as the outside 

 is, beleive me to be very heartily. 



Deaf Gil, Your affte Friend & Servt, 



J. Mulso. 

 P.S. My Son has got rid of a little Attachment here, (that 

 once gave me some Uneasiness,) to my Joy : so I am not young 

 enough to subscribe to the 



XaAtirtirepoj' 5t ■kolvtuv 

 'AiroTvyxiffty (ptKovvra 



it was an honourable One, but misplaced. 



Letter 200. 

 Revd Mr White, Winchester, 



Selbourne, Hants. + at Alton. Jan : 12, 1783. 



Dear Gil : 



I received your Letter by your Nephew John ; if my 

 Memory does not fail, I answered it before I left 'Stoke, but 

 this I am clear in, that I wrote to you since my Arrival here, in 



