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our union by making our union as harmonious & as perfect as we can. What says my wife to this. I have also been thinking to-night of the wonderful influence your physical presence has over my health. Do you remember how much better I was after our marriage from what I was before. I have not been away from you since our marriage without noticing its effects. Last summer when I came to La Porte I ran down but when I returned to you I immediately commenced gaining. Do you remember how fast I gained after I returned home to your last fall. My sleep refreshes me much more when you are by my side than when I sleep alone. Do you remember how your rubbing me last fall, when I suffered so from my fall, relieved me instantly of all pain. When I came here this winter I wa almost free from nervousness compared with what I have suffered from it since you have been gone. How often when I have been suffering from extreme nervousness this winter have I felt that I would give almost anything to have the soothing influence of your physical presence. Josephine was a dear good wife but her physical presence had no such effect upon me. Our physical natures must be almost perfectly adapted to each other & may it not be that our souls are also. Dear Wife let us love each other as we ought & do all the good we possibly can to each other in every possibly way & I thank God for you & for the dear children you have borne me & ask him to bless you & them with his richest blessings & with a loving kiss I bid you a sweet good night. N.K.