some time and I think it did her a great deal of good. I trust that when the fine weather comes she will get strong. I answered my cousin Maria's letter last week and told her all about our wedding. Mr Hervey called for Mama with his wife the day after his arrival. Mama thinks that she is a very nice person. I met them on the beach on Friday. She is not plain looking. I think she is rather pretty. She is much too good for him. Your large dog has come back. Mrs Williamson sent him up to me. I fastened him up but he got loose again and has ran back I suppose to her. I must send for him today and get a chain. Tomorrow you will have been gone a fortnight. The time has passed slowly with me. It has appeared longer than the five weeks we were together after our marriage. I trust darling you will not be away more than six weeks or two months. I know however you will not stay away a day longer than you can help from your little slave. Mama desired me yesterday to give you her love. I must conclude darling although I would wish to go on writing to you for hours. Both letters are dreadfully written but I know that you will receive them with pleasure however bad the writing is as they express the feelings of your affectionate wife, Susan D McLean