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very unhappy after receiving a letter from you - and I think it is because you revive all her dislike to the Wades? and excite her indignation against Romaine - that I think will cause her more unhappiness in the end - for it will cause unpleasant feeling on both sides if they should be married. I hope and believe that the bitterness of Ma's opposition will pass away in time if is not kept alive by anyone - She herself says that the thinks she will learn to feel differently about it. Perhaps I am saying too much about it: but John dear I cannot bear to see this estrangement between you and Romaine - when it might be otherwise by a little forbearance, kindness, and charity - on both sides - Your letter has caused Romaine a great deal of unhappiness - and she has had enough to bear without that - Her health is suffering very much - She has never been as thin and weak as this summer - and though she says nothing - one can easily see that she suffers. You must not think that she is sentimental or romantic or anything of that kind - for she is not - She does try to be cheerful - it is her nature - but still I can see her getting weaker every day. I tremble for the coming winter. Do write to her - John - and tell her kindly and

written upside down: just returned from the South and expected to enter the Theological Seminary this fall - what a dreadful loss it would be to the family -