Mr Waitt has forbid him to enter the house. It is really distressing to see the way the Roman Catholic religion is prospering just now. I do not wonder that ignorant people should be led away but how those who have been brought up from childhood Protestant and have studied their Bibles, besides having read a history of the dreadful crimes which have been allowed by the Roman Catholics, how they can then be blind enough to turn I cannot imagine. I must I am afraid conclude my own darling for tonight. May God bless you my own dear husband. Friday night I received you letters of the 30th July and 5 August with one [crossed out] this afternoon and although it gave me great pleasure to hear from my dearest Donald yet I felt much disappointed to hear that I had no chance of seeing you soon. I was in hopes that you would tell me in your letter by today's mail that