Baltimore Feby 11th 1834
My dear husband,
Your’s of the 8th was duly delivered to me on the evening of Saturday last, and I sincerely regret the pain you have been made to suffer in this last disappointment; it only remains for us to bear it cheerfully and in the true Christian spirit, and to hope for the realization of brighter prospects, to which you distantly allude. There is another source of consolation in an aphorism, which if trite, is nevertheless true, “in our darkest hours we must nearly approximate the cheerful and sunny day.” In the mean time, let us trust God, and He will prosper and crown with reasonable success, our well directed exertions.
We look forward with joy to see you again, endeavouring patiently to submit to your detention, although it has been protracted, and hoping that at last it may result in our general benefit. We have many blessings for which to be grateful to a gracious providence that we enjoy health, that we have had given to us more than an ordinary degree of strength to battle with the trials of life, and numberless others. Let us bear up yet longer and all will be well. But it is unnecessary to say this to you; your eyes are not accustomed to look back with vain regret upon the past, but calmly and steadily to the future. Let me then apply it to myself whom your courageous mind has so long sustained in my weakness.
Elizabeth sends her dear father her best love and prayers, with those of his affectionate wife
P.S. We shall be very glad to see Mr. Kerr, and hope he may come to our house.