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(Letter to Bishop Elliott from Bishop Polk January 31st, 1857)

company. Mrs. P thinks her eyes improved very much, but she is
not yet relieved entirely. I hope from what I hear she may have
one of her eyes at least restored. Her general health has been
very much improved. So that on the whole we hope to be requited
for the separation. Say to your wife I advise her to take good
care of her eyes, if not for her own at least for your sake. This
widowhood is an awful business, they say and I believe it, there
is no place so desolate as that where there is no lady, except
that where one has been.

Very truly and affectionately
Yours in Christ
Leonidas Polk

The Rt. Rev. S. Elliott

P. S. Say to Haby, my young friend, I expect him the be very
diligent and successful in his studies as we shall be wanting
him for a professor or President of the University or some other
dignity connected with it, when he gets old enough, especially
as we have concluded to be done with the Yankee boys altogether.