I dont think I shall ever have anything like as good an opportunity as I had at home for quiet reading and reflection I thank
my God for all that his befallen me I have been very thouroughly homesick good folk would often say to me I hope you will
not be homesick I didnt know what they meant I always thought myself illegible of sufficient resolution and strength of mind
to carry me quite above all this which I thought was only girlish and sentimental I have been sorely mistaken however O how
I have wished and wished for a letter for the last three weeks If you folk only had known how often and anxiously 5