Wellington Terrace [1851] My dearest husband I cannot tell you how delighted I was to receive your letter from the Taita. I read it I am sure half a dozen times a day and I put it with your likeness under my pillow every night and look at it whenever I wake in the morning. I trust darling that you will have some other opportunities of writing to me on your way to Ahuriri. I have felt very lonely since you left. I never sit in the parlour. I cannot sit alone in that room where I have spent so many happy hours with my dear husband without feeling very dull. After you went away on Tuesday I did not know what to do with