question three or four times in five minutes. The other day she asked how Mama was. Miss Hunter sat with her for some time today and she told me that she had been asking her when things were going to take place which had happened years ago. It is impossible she can live long for she can take no food of any kind. I shall bid you now good night. I am afraid my darling you will scarcely be able to read this. I have written so ill but I know [sic] do not care how I write as long as I tell all my thoughts. Good night my dearest love. May God bless and preserve you. Tuesday night It is three weeks tonight since my darling husband left me. How I wish another month were past as I might then hope every hour to see him. I fear darling you will not be here by our wedding day as you have been detained so long on the way. I shall be very sorry if we cannot spend the first anniversary of that happy day