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La Porte Jan 30 = 1864 My own dear good Wife

    Perhaps you will think I write you too often, but I am anxious as I never was before that our intellectual lives should be a unit & also our spiritual & if agreeable to yo I wish to spend most of my leisure with you. I wrote you a long letter a short time ago telling you my view of the relations of the true husband & Wife. I have promised you to do all in my power to make our union & assimilation perfect provided you desired it & would promise me to do all in your power towards accomplishing the same End. If you Enter into