If you ask me when this is to be, I can only say that it depends on the length of our struggle.

I am enlisted for the war, and I mean to see it through! Till that time Frank must content himself with acting as my substitute at home.

I am so well pleased with his management of the farm that I am convinced it is doing as well as if I were at home to superintend it in person.

Express to Mr.
Waring my gratitude for the generous proposal he has made to Frank.

I feel that words are inadequate to express the extent of our obligations to him." Some years have passed since the above letter was written.