![]() Is my language too strong? it is a feeble picture of my feelings:- words can tell you how much I love and how much I long-you will only know it when wrapt in each others arms we give and take those delicious caresses which love inspires and marriage sanctifies. I have told you, and I told you truly that I love you too much-You engross my thoughts too entirely to allow me to think of any thing else-You not only employ my mind all day but you intrude upon my sleep-I meet you in every dream-and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetnesses -Tis a pretty story indeed that I am to be thus monopolized, by a little nut-brown maid like you-and from a Statesman and a soldier into a puny lover-I believe in my soul you are an inchantress but I have tried in vain, if not to break, at least, to weaken the charms-you maintain your empire in spite of all my efforts-and after every new one, my partial heart still returns and clings to you with increased attachment-To drop figure my lovely girl you become dearer to me every moment-I am more and more unhappy and impatient under the hard necessity that keeps me from you, and yet the prospect lengthens as I advance-Harrison has just received an account of the death of his father and will be obliged to go to Virginia-Meade's affairs (as well as his love) compel him to go there also in a little time-There will then remain to few in the family to make it possible for me to leave it till Harrisons return-but I have told him that I will not be delayed beyond November-I had hoped the middle would have given us to each other but I now fear it will be the latter end-Though the period of our reunion in reality approaches it seems further off-Among other causes of uneasiness, I dread lest you should imagine, I yield too easily to the barrs, that keep us asunder but if you have such an idea you ought to banish it and reproach yourself with injustice-A spirit entering into bliss, heaven opening upon all its, cannot long more ardently for the enjoyment, than I do my darling Betsey, to taste the heaven that awaits me in your bosom. Requests that she ask Margarita Schuyler (Peggy, Elizabeth's sister) if she will serve as the main character in a writing of his entitled, "The way to get him, for the benefit of all single ladies who desire to be married." Asks whether she would prefer him to wear his uniform for their marriage and whether she wants to follow their plan to be married secretly. you will only know when wrapt in each others arms we give and take those delicious caresses which love inspires and marriage sanctifies." Admonishes her for not writing enough. my darling Betsey, to taste the heaven that awaits me in your bosom. Descriptively explains how much he loves and misses her, ". States that he will not be delayed past November and assures her that he is doing everything in his power to return. I am to be thus monopolized by a little nut brown maid like you and from a Statesman and soldier metamorphosed into a puny lover." Continues on to say how much he misses her, but that he must remain until Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison returns. Begins a dramatic love letter to his fiancee with, " I have told you, and I told you truly that I love you too much.
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