2 I cannot write you much of a letter - and what I write will I fear be disjointed scattering but you will put up with it
be thankful perhaps - when you know that I am better getting to be able to write for the first time in the last month. It
has been a great trail to me not to write to you Merrill. - that you tell me of M's tardiness. I understand only too well
- and care not how severe you are with him - if any thing you can do will startle him out of it - I shall be only too thankful.
I think he has needed more sternness - more severity than I have been able to give him. He has felt the loss of his dear father
- without being conscious of it. God grant he may be able to overcome this fault. 00613 3 I am happy
and content in the thought of your being together, I am gland that you are taking him away from the valley away from humanity
into the wilderness - where even John the Baptist Christ himself dwelt for days years. - I am still in this quiet sand- hill.
Sister Kate has left me is before this at home - tho' I have not heard of her arrival there. Janet Charles I kept as I could
not bear to be separated from them. I have been very ill but my physiccian says I am improving I feel that I must stay here
until the warm weather at home is all gone. So I sit now in my room I look out on the sea - I never tire of it - it is always
more more beautiful. I have walked on the beach - sat in the sand - listened by the hour toils -