Perhapps I am not cleverr enuff to see the funn in this joke." In this letter I detect a certain softening of feeling towards Mrs.
Rebecca Caulfield.

In the next year--'66--according to my notes, Matthew's father died, and I have no letters bearing the date of that year, which our Matthew no doubt spent at home.

Nor have I any letters from this time until the year of Matthew's marriage with Rebecca Caulfield.

In the one year of his union with Mrs.Rebecca, and the last year of his life, there are many letters, a few from London and the rest from the manor-house at Dewsdale.

But in these epistles, affectionate and confidential as they are, there is little positive information.
These are the letters of the regenerate and Wesleyanised Matthew; and, like the more elaborate epistles of his wife Rebecca, deal chiefly with matters spiritual.