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beautiful & the bloom of health ever to be seen on your
cheeks. In disposition I found you mild & amiable, and
I have seen nothing since our marriage to alter the
[exalted] opinion I first formed of your good natures.
Your manners were pleasant & engaging, though rather
retiring & diffident, which [endeared] you the more to my
heart. I found in your nature that modesty which is the
highest trait in female [character] & without which the
most accomplished & brilliant of your sex are despicable
in my eyes. In conversation though [unassuming] & [illegible]
you were lively & interesting. Your mind had been well
cultivated for one of your age. You had acquired a
a taste for reading which I hope will be cultivated
with [care] & [illegible]. In your day I found you very
neat & tasteful, though never gaudy or splendid. I never
saw any one more simple & yet so tasteful & [particular].
You wore then, as you do now, your hair in curls,
which gave you a peculiar girlish & striking
appearance. Your voice was the sweetest & softest I
ever heard. You performed most charmingly on the
[Guitar] & almost [created] in my bosom a fondness for
music!

It was thus my dear Lizzy that you
[appeared] to me when I first began to love you
& although we have now been married nearly
three months you are still the same soft,
lovely & beautiful being I have just described.
If you have faults they are not perceptable to me
and can only be the faults of youth & inexperience nor is it

beautiful & the bloom of health ever to be seen on your
cheeks. In disposition I found you mild & amiable, and
I have seen nothing since our marriage to alter the
[exalted] opinion I first formed of your good natures.
Your manners were pleasant & engaging, though rather
retiring & diffident, which [endeared] you the more to my
heart. I found in your nature that modesty which is the
highest trait in female [character] & without which the
most accomplished & brilliant of your sex are despicable
in my eyes. In conversation though [unassuming] & [illegible]
you were lively & interesting. Your mind had been well
cultivated for one of your age. You had acquired a
a taste for reading which I hope will be cultivated
with [care] & [illegible]. In your day I found you very
neat & tasteful, though never gaudy or splendid. I never
saw any one more simple & yet so tasteful & [particular].
You wore then, as you do now, your hair in curls,
which gave you a peculiar girlish & striking
appearance. Your voice was the sweetest & softest I
ever heard. You performed most charmingly on the
[Guitar] & almost [created] in my bosom a fondness for
music!

It was thus my dear Lizzy that you
[appeared] to me when I first began to love you
& although we have now been married nearly
three months you are still the same soft,
lovely & beautiful being I have just described.
If you have faults they are not perceptable to me
and can only be the faults of youth & inexperience nor is it