My dear sisters will now I hope be safely landed at their future abode. May God grant that my most sanguine hopes requesting them may be fully realised. I surely miss Catherine. She was all the mother I ever knew. I have no one now to whom I can go with all my thoughts and wishes. The war is now coming to an end which I hope will speed your movements. This will have proved a fruitful period for taking notes for the anticipated volume when am I to have