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9 I thought you my dear wife would love & prize it as I did & would thank me for my forethought & kindness in providing you with it & so fixing it that it must be yours although I did not live to enjoy. It was the fruit of long years of toil lain at your feet it was my all & I gave it to you. You did not thank me for it. I cannot recall a single word of gratitude or even of satisfaction. In my disappointment I did not consider as I should that you had never known in your childhood as I had the want of a home & consequently could not enter into my feelings upon the subject. For a time I did not feel towards you as I ought, or as I do now. I fear I said things to you that woulded your feelings for which I now beg your forgiveness which I was sure you will grant when you know all my disappointment. I am thankful