p.

odd to see the Robinson in thy handwriting.
It is the first thy ever wrote to Mrs. R. i'snt it?
Did thee take any more cold? Be sure and
tell me if thy cough is better - My precious love,
does thee know how thee is in very truth the
"Light of my life." Perhaps it isn't right or wise
to be so entirely bound up in another but I
can't help it any more than I can stop my
heart's beating. I love thee. - yes, indeed, dear,
"never quite so much as now." There is a furious
wind to-night and Mary had some work of Mrs.
Nichols to see about and so I went down with
her - and if we had not been so ponderous we
should have sailed away, I verily believe. This
afternoon Horace took us up to see the new
house. I like it very much indeed. It is large
on the ground and high in the air and
will be very comfortable and convenient.
Horace works there a little. Howard goes to
school. Tempic's [Edson?] youth teaches here, a
miserable school. Tempic was married last [Wednesday?].
It is too bad. There was a little snow at F. on Friday
night, but not enough to use. I took Anne's dozen