You ought not to let him quarrel with people.

I know that he would listen to you.
He always did.
I write now especially because I have just received so dreadful a letter from Mr.Kennedy! I would send it you were it not that there are in it a few words which on his behalf I shrink from showing even to you.

It is full of threats.

He begins by quotations from the Scriptures, and from the Prayer-Book, to show that a wife has no right to leave her husband,--and then he goes on to the law.

One knows all that of course.