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You would take pleasure in giving them to me without reserve. Were I with you I would also strive to fill your heart with the happiness than come from the knowledge that we are appreciated & loved by the one whom of all others we best appreciate & love the most. I would also strive to make you understand & full realize how deeply I prize those true, womanly words you have recently written me. I don't think you fully know how much good those words have done me, nor how much closer they are drawing your own dear self to my heart. I want you should know for I am sure it adds to your happiness in knowing that you are adding to mine. Seven years ago to day we became husband & wife. Providence seemed to bring about our union. When we first met it was with no design upon our part or the part of our friends. In fact at that time I was engaged to be married to Josephine who for a brief time was my wife but