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to leave Personification and to speak of your Piece; I like 

 it very much and so does everybody to whom I have show'd 

 it; only Miss Hecky likes more that you should be in- 

 debted to nobody for your plan. ... I am glad that you 

 have such an inclination to Sunbury, I wish the word 

 Prcebeo was more applicable to me, that I might accommo- 

 date you in the amplest manner. You may well call the 

 vicarage a Caravansary, for as I take it there was little 

 more than bare walls in them. ... I call Mouse to witness 

 my Eastern beggary. You must settle your own time and 

 then I will not be in London, but I will attend you thither 

 with pleasure. Miss Hecky will be glad to see you, and so 

 will Jenny* etc. I expect to see your brother Musgravef 

 soon who is going up to attend his sister Betty's marriage. 

 The day is not fixed. Dont rail at my laziness. I have 

 in some of your letters the best descriptions of Procrasti- 

 nation, and applied to yourself. I profess it, my genius is 

 idle, but I dont glory in it neither. . . . You may venture 

 to a Play, for the audience had like to have torn the House 

 down the other night, for the manager's daring to revive an 

 indecent Play of Otway's ; and calling him forth, ordered him 

 never to affront their ears with such loose performances." 



On April 11th, 1750, John Mulso writes again : — 



" You are now I suppose to be found, like Cyrus, ranging 

 your Trees, and nursing your Plants. ... I wish you joy 

 of the arrival of the swallows and the swifts and the 

 nightingales. I hope you will send me word how your 

 nurseries go on, and the true state of Selbourne Hanger, 

 with the delightful history of the Temple and Weather- 

 cock. ... I hope you are writing out Heck's sermon J for 

 us, for the Bishop is soon going down to Peterboro', and 



• Miss Jane Young, to whom Mulso was engaged. 



t Chardin Musgrave, Fellow, subsequently Provost, of Oriel. 



X A sermon composed by Miss Mulso and sent to G. White. 



