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Browning-hill Thur July 21st 1768
Hon'd Sir
I hope I have not outstayed your expectations of hearing
from me from hence; the Ground required some time to be surveyed
before I could be qualified to make my report: the conversations could
not be introduced all at once, from whence those particulars were to be
collected whereof you desired to be informed - sorry I am that the report
which I have at last to make should be so unfavourable to all our wishes.
I have perceived marks of a mutual aversion which I fear is too firmly
established to be removed by any endeavours of mine, or any one else; it
had it's root in the clause of the Deed of Partition by which the Essex
Estate is to go to my Uncle if Mr Mulford should have no issue. to speak the
truth, it is not to be consider'd at, that my Uncle knowing Mr Mulford's
caprices, and not knowing what inducements he might possibly have to
make a different disposition of it, should be very sollicitous to prevent
him making such an one as would be prejudicial to himself: at the
same time it is not more to be consider'd at, that Mr Mulford should be
very uneasy at having his hands tied up. no reconciliation therefore can
be expected, till Mr Mulford can be satisfied that his own conduct
was a sufficient justification for Mr Grove to require and Mr Mulford
to consent that he should be controlled in the disposal of what he
looked upon to be his own: and whether that is ever like to be the case, I
leave you to judge. The current of the resentment is from Mr Mulford
to my Uncle, and from my Aunt back to Mr Mulford. what my Uncle's
feelings are, I know not with any certainty; what his right hand does, you
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