him about as you know small matters do. But nothing but illness will keep me from going home on the 15th. I do so long to be with you all & thereby feel that my stay will be but short, but I am very happy and quite feel that a kind & more honorable man I could not have chosen than Robert Hart. In fact he is the soul of affection. He is much improved in health in "every" way and all his family are so kind & so pleased that he is going to have a home of his own & doing all they can for our comfort. The house will not be