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Constantinople April 4, 1895
My dear Wife --

Your letter of the 13th April came yes-
terday and brought the continuing good news that
you were alive and well. It seems that you had
not received a letter which must have reached
you a few days after. I am now reconciled
to the idea of remaining alone until fall. Your
ideas on this subject are good -- it is better than
to quit here now just about even. I should save
something. Indeed I (from a money stand point)
can do better at home, then, than to stay here --
so it seems to me -- For here I cannot write except
on business. It is only with head tired with the
labors of the day that I can find time at night
to keep up any little correspondence. Thus I cannot
find time for that reflection so necessary to write
any thing like a book. But I should not quit now.

That newspaper account of my going
home should not have deceived you, for you