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know it, and am pleased at it. I pray my life
may be spared to publish your writings, but if not,
I know [Fanny] will do it. I thank you for
giving me so loving a daughter. I will not
do without her. Ethel too is a [illegible]
but God bless my darling husband. [illegible]
his sorrowing and loving wife. God grant
us all may meet never to part.

Sans Souci. March 3rd 1888. Friday 12. M.
My darling beloved husband. Another anniversary
month has come round. Today is 15 months since you
left me. Oh! how I miss you. My heart yearns to see
you. I pray to be a christian, so I may meet you in
heaven never to part. I would be so thankful to see
you once again. if only for one hour. I miss you more
and more and long for the time to come to live near the
Churchyard and pay yourresting place daily visits
and keep our place in perfect order. I seems so strange
and sad not to see you in your accustomed places out
here that I can hardly bear the loneliness without
you all are kind and I am grateful for my many
mercies but nothing can ever make up for my sepa-
ration from you. Oh my darling I long to see you.
The Book is now published. I think it is a worthy re