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that a blessing may ever
rest on one who seemed
to me so good & true.
How well I remember
the last day I saw you,
both at your house & mine
& how full of sympathy
& kindness you were & how
willing your dear hus-
band was to take my "pen-
sion Bill." It seemed al-
most prophetic, that I
did not leave it with
his Committee. I should
willingly have left it with
him, for nothing was far[-]
ther from my thoughts;

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than, that he would
never return, but I
thought - in a Committee,
papers have been so of[-]
ten mislaid - Alas!
the Bill has never been
passed. I have never
had the courage to go
myself up to Congress.
One or two of my gen-
tlemen friends have
tried to do what they
could for the last
three years & a half
(ah! Think how long
it has been) - Once it
passed the Senate, but
not in this Congress -