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It seems to me dear wife I never knew before how much I love you & how necessary you are to my happiness. We have been separated but a very little since our Marriage before & I hope we shall be blessed with Each other s presence for long years yet. I know not why but I am better when with you there than when away from you. At night your presence and the contact of your flesh has a quieting soothing influence upon my nervous system & I sleep better & sweeter with you than without you. It was almost two last nights before I got to sleep. I was restless & nervous. I often think when away from home I will never go away again without you, but the want of money compels us to forego many pleasures than we would otherwise gladly enjoy. These words of affection & love, dear wife, are my reply to the thought which it seems to me underlies the quoted words from your letter. I fancy that you half thought m as you do not receive letters from me as often as formally, that my affections for you were losing something of their warmth. Have I said enough dear one to convince you that my love for you is as warm & Earnest as ever, that absence has only made it more intense by showing me how closely these years have knit our souls