You will sit down tonight and write your wife a letter.

That day the new president-elect wrote his wife: "The die is cast and you must prepare yourself for honorable trials."

Then, as he did with every letter he wrote his wife, he deleted it.

He wrote his wife that rioters attempted to kill every Negro in sight.

I wrote his wife and told her the story, expressing my gratitude for a big man's long-ago kindness to a boy.

He agrees however to speak with her husband, who informs him that he has already agreed and written his wife so.

"Finish your drink while I write my wife," Henry said, apparently not noticing the tears.

What if Rose had written his wife saying he intended to urge his orderly to desert?

They drive my mind to its ultimate capacities," he wrote his wife, "and I feel constantly submerged.

"My position in this house has become intolerable," he writes his wife.