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you possibly can. I want my dear Mr Kendall, that you should live to a good old age, & be well. And I want you to enjoy life, & be very happy. I believe you are good, & I love you, Oh! so much, & I shall try, when I become your wife, to do all, in my power, to help you enjoy life, & to make you happy, & I know you will do as much, in return to make me happy. But I do not expect we shall sail down the stream of life, without being assailed by trials, sorrows, & temptations. --- many of them --- and much exertion, & skill will be required on our part to keep our frail backs "right side up", & ourselves, just where we ought to be --- but this will be our work, & we must try to do that work well, so that when it is done, & we appear before our Father's throne in Heaven, He will say, "Well done thou good & faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy God." --- But I must go & render some assistance to my mother, I fear. I have already tarried too long. I thought I would write a few words this morning, lest something would happen to-morrow, to prevent me from writing, & by so doing, disappoint you next week. It is my wish, never to disappoint one, who I so dearly love, but I fear I did, when I told you, I wished to have our marriage postponed, two or three months. I would gladly have consented to be married at the time you mentioned, but I could not see clearly, that is was best. Abby wishes she was with you this very moment, as your wife, although she might feel sad to part with these loved ones here. Her love for you carries her thoughts away from her pleasant home, & from these loved ones many times

(written up left-hand side) during each day, to the far West, & she feels that she cares not to have our marriage postponed longer than about the 1st of May next --- but I must go. If I get a letter from you to-night, perhaps I will write a few words to-morrow, now just let me twine my arms around your neck, & I will be give as loving a Kiss as you ever received. --- good morning --- Affectionately, Abby