I am very explicit to you although we have of late been strangers, because in former days you were closely acquainted with the condition of my family affairs.
Since my wife left me I have had no means of communicating with her by the assistance of any common friend.

Having heard that you are about to visit her at Dresden I feel a great desire to see you that I may be enabled to send by you a personal message.

My health, which is now feeble, and the altered habits of my life render it almost impossible that I should proceed to London with this object, and I therefore ask it of your Christian charity that you should visit me here at Loughlinter.

You, as a Roman Catholic, cannot but hold the bond of matrimony to be irrefragable.

You cannot, at least, think that it should be set aside at the caprice of an excitable woman who is not able and never has been able to assign any reason for leaving the protection of her husband.
I shall have much to say to you, and I trust you will come.