It was very fortunate for me, Philip, that you concluded not to go to Litchfield for I would have been sadly disappointed not to have received a full answer to my letter. I began to fear you meant to make me feel what it has to expect and not receive a letter from one very dear, for I did not get yours till Sabbath evening, b7ut when I noticed the date I saw that it was written early enough, to have reached here the last of the month, and concluded the mails were detained by the bad traveling. I thank you Dear Philip, for the frankness and generosity of your answer and am now willing that the “subject of our last letters” should be dropped forever. It is a week since your letter came and you are expecting to hear from me, Philip, and something I shall send by tomorrow’s mail but I am not in a state of mind to write any thing that will give you the least pleasure to read. It is weakness and jolly, perhaps, to indulge in feelings that perplex and trouble us when we are sane that no good result from the indulgence and you will perhaps smile, Philip, that it is the subject of Religion that so engrosses me now for, you and I, both know that I am too much denoted to the world to relinquish it and give my whole attention to this subject but it needs, Philip, a more unbending heart than mine not to feel us a time like this, and why is it, Philip, if we admit the truth of the