A courier is starting for Williamsburg, and I embrace the opportunity to send a few words to one whose life is now inseparable from mine.

Since that happy hour when we made our pledges to each other, my thoughts have been continually going to you as another Self.

That an all powerful Providence may keep us both in safety is the prayer of your ever faithful and affectionate friend.[1] [Footnote 1: P.L.Ford, _The True George Washington_, 93.] Late in that autumn Washington returned for good from his Western fighting.

On January 6, 1759 (Old Style), his marriage to Mrs.Custis took place in St.Peter's Church, near her home at the White House.
Judging from the fine writing which old historians and new have devoted to describing it, Virginia had seen few such elegant pageants as upon that occasion.

The grandees in official station and in social life were all there.