I have intended a long time since to write to you but have been prevented by various avocations. Sincerely have I sympathized with you in your late affliction and you have been frequently in my remembrance. The various trials we meet with in this Life, are perhaps necessary to give us a true Idea of its inefficacy to ensure our happiness and to teach us to place our affections and direct our...
a week or two past we had your Marriage announced in our news papers and I have been congratulated upon it by many of your friends, and I confess have been waiting ever since for a communication from yourself, to offer my congratulations to you, upon an event that I most cordially wish and expect will be productive of your happiness permit me to present myself to my new sister through your...
Your two letters of November I have received, and am rejoiced to find that you recover strength. I have suffered a great deal of anxiety of mind upon account of your indisposition. At times I feel as if I could fly almost to see you, and be with you. When I lose you, this world will appear to me a desert. I do not complain, but my mind has suffered much; perhaps I am too prone to anticipate...