Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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I have been quite busy the last week & not written much but will try to make
up this week so my little wife may get her three letters. I recd that dreadful
letter. Oh my! what a letter that was, & then two good ones since. I have
been on picquet once & am president of a court marshall, so you see yr
husband you scolded so unmercifully has had to work hard & be scolded at the
same time. now ar’nt you sorry? I have worried dreadfully about yr cold darling
& am rejoiced to hear it has left you. Suppose you will say I am only
jealous of it. Wonder if my babies will say I am jealous when I correct them.
But notwithstanding yr scolding I do love you my own sweet angel. Oh you cannot
imagine how dear you are to me. My own beautiful sweet wife. I worship you day
& night. I think of you all the time & would give anything to be with
you always. The duties of manhood will be the only thing that will ever keep me
fr you one moment. I do not doubt or distrust you my own angel I have not for an
instant since we were married. Cant you believe me. I know how devoted you are
to me & I thank God daily for it. I think it would be an insult to virtue
& a sin ag’st God to doubt yr pure chaste, unselfish love to me. I know you
have never indulged
in an unchaste thought since you were mine,
& indeed never. I never saw a female so innocent as my own beloved wife is,
& for this very reason do I feel the more desirous of guarding you against
the temptations to which innocence is always liable. I think my sweet love that
yr intire conduct towards me & with me since we knew each other has been a
continued manifestation of the purest, loftiest, holiest love any woman ever
felt for her husband. Just think my own angel what a loss such a love as that
would be to me. Who could or would wish to survive it! Can you blame me then for
worrying some- times & feeling anxious & wishing you to avoid the
appearance of evil? Can you blame me for feeling alarmed even at some things in
the past? Dont every body guard their jewels carefully? Ar’nt you all the world
to me? If you only knew my feelings & the depth of my love you would not
wonder at anything I should say or do. Can you forgive yr husband for only
appearing to wrong you? especially when his acts are but the index of his love
for you? God bless you my own perfect wife. & bring us to-gether soon.
Please remember me to those young ladies fr S__ Aint this article good? You had
better put it in a scrap book.
Your own fond devoted husbandW. G. Veazey