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weather now so that farmers can get their crops in. Winter wheat I am told looks well here. I attended church this A.M. at the Swedenborgian church. Mr. Weller is chaplain you know to Mr. Gleason's regiment. Judge Andrews conducted the services & Judge Niles read a sermon. I was not very interested. I should like so much to be with you to day to talk with you & to love you & be be loved by you. If you were here we would indeed have a nice talk over. I do want so much to have you & the children with me that it seems as if I could not wait till June. I had made up my mind to do without home & wife & children for the most of the time as I thought you would prefer living east to living here & I knew I could not be happy to have you here when I thought you preferred living somewhere else but when your letter come & told me you had forty times rather live at the farm than at Warwick my desires for home & for you & our children returned with redoubled energy. You know from your own experience something of how anxious I am to have our children with me & how much I miss them & I suppose you also understand from your own feelings how anxious I am to have you with me & how much I miss you. You are my wife & the mother of my children. I love you & them. You & they are my hearts treasures. Where those treasures are there my heart turns for its home. I love to have you near me to talk with me, to enjoy with me, to sympathize with me. I can open up to you my soul as I can to no one else. And then too our bodies seems to be in perfect harmony so that we materially experience great physical pleasure from sleeping together such pleasure as I presume very few do experience. I enjoyed you nightly the last part of the time we lived together as I never before dreamed it possible. I did not enjoy the consummation of our sexual intercourse any better the last part of the time than I did when we first had it in its fullness at Washington when you exclaimed "this is worth while", only I learned that at such times your lips were O so sweet!! but I did enjoy intensely as I know you did lying & sleeping as we only learned how the last few months we lived together. Had I the means I would not be absent from you a day longer than till I could get to you for as long as

(along the side) you love me & I you, I can consider of no greater enjoy on earth than your own sweet self. You are a luxury & a blessing intellectually socially & physically to me. Say dear one, [?] as much of a luxury to you!