Words fail to tell how much comfort your letter gives me It sometimes almost over comesCorrected:overcomes the sense of being to bre [?] Unclear or illegible ast the storms of mortal mind. Then to hear such a bird note, then to see such a ray divine of light and love coming from human pen — O, is it not comforting? I thank you, God lo [?] Unclear or illegible ves you, that is enough He will finish and furnish all that remains to be felt and known. by us and all poor sinners. Yours and Camilla's phot [?] Unclear or illegible os are in my album side by side; but on my mantle your face and Gen. Baker's are face to face. That is the way you you are in my heart. For I know you to be two of the most genuine characters I have ever known, and I have known grand and glorious ones. Some of those are yet with us but most of them are in Heaven. I have just read a swee [?] Unclear or illegible t letter from your sweet wife that cheers me. Will eternity be too long in which to praise the ever lastingCorrected:everlasting Good for even the moiety that we poor pensioners on it know and enjoy?

I like your idea as to the article, a part of which you enclose. I have not the author's address but Gen. Bates has she was his student