Early in their marriage, while separated from Helen by his work, he writes to her, comparing the separation to a leg amputation. “I have often thought that a man must feel queerly, who has had a leg amputated.; but what is the subtraction of a leg, compared to the loss of his ‘better half”? Ah! …our hearts are one, not our bodies, so that we can be in full communion with each other at a distance…”
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