It would never seem to me to have any legal sanction whatever if I were not there to add my blessing.

Only let me know which day "early in June" it is to be, that I may make ready.

Deniston will fetch us on, and by a special piece of good luck, a man in Chicago--whose name I shall always bless if only I can remember what it is--has been instigated by our mutual good angel to want him on business just about that time; so that he would have to go West anyway, and would rather have me along than not, and is perfectly resigned to his fate.

I mean to come three days before, and stay three days after the wedding, if I may, and altogether it is going to be a lark of larks.

Little Rose can talk quite fluently now, and almost read; that is, she knows six letters of her picture alphabet.