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Your old friend Mr Prentice has been in this place this spring
I was told he inquired after you very particularly and spoke
of you with respect, and expressed much good feeling for you
I have been formely , no admirer of his, but I cannot help being
gratefull to a dog that has good feeling towards my children
Mr Logne has returned to our City from Europe. He told Bob
he expected to see you in Washington, and hunted for you, until
he was told where you were gon. And Jilson Harrison was here
weeks since on his way to the estern states on a trip, of pleasure with
his wife. He call to see me, but I did not see his wife as I was too
much indisposed to call on her. Harrison is very changed he is thin
in flesh but has good health. He inquired after you, thinking that
perhaps you may be returned by that time.
I am induced from the
impore of severa of your last letters to fear my dear son that
you are not happy can it be so? I thought you more of a sold-
ier, take the world as you me it, this world or this life is a pil-
grimage, of cross es and warfare therefore we must as christians
be resigned to our fate and say in our heart, thy will Oh, God
be done. I do think and believe it is natural for us to feel our
afflictions and disappointent, but we should not repire. I am
inclined to think you are to marry. I have, but, I should be sorry
very sorry for you to do so for that reason. I hope you will never
marry untill you can do it with your owne free will, and that it
is the greatest wish of your heart. But Theodore, I as a Mother and
friend advise you, if ever you do come to the conclusion to marry
to select a girl of a good and strong naural mind, it is of much
more importance than the dispotion. The mind governs all,
for those that act from impulse or passion have no mind. Such an
individual cannot make you or any man happy. I am speaking
on a subjects that is not nearest my heart. the salvation of your
soul is the most promenant wish of my heart my daly prayers
are offered up to the throne of{ merk} for this purpose, when I see
my children good christians I shall feel as though my task was
done, my sturdship was up. If you find me not pleasing or uninter-
esting I hope you will attribute to my greate anxiety for you
and not the slitest wish to make myself disagreeable to you.
Bengimin Bradford has been in this place lately, he
was from Texas, he was one of the few that made their escape at
the massecree at the Church. Your Brother saw him and conver-
sed with him. he has returned and I hope he may not fall by
those Spanards. How peasing it would be to me to see you and