White Creek  Feb. 26, 1827.


My dear Husband,

Your letter dated at Edenton has been received, and much pleasure it gave us.  I regret that so long time has elapsed without your hearing from us.  This failure is oweing to the circumstance of your not having progressed <s>so</s> as far south as I have directed your letters.  This is the fifth time I have written you since you left.  The first you received at Washington.  The 2nd was directed to Charleston S.C. -- the 3rd to Savannah -- The 4th again to Charleston.  I have directed precisely as you ordered, except the last which you left <s>at my</s> to be directed at my discretion.  Yours written at Norfolk was so long in coming that I could not forward an answer from this place till more than three weeks from the time <s>yours</s> it was written.  I considered you would have passed Edenton before my answers would reach that place.  Therefore sent it to Charleston.  I should be glad to write you every week, and every day in the week, if I knew where my letters would find you, and could send as often.  Your letters arrive on Wednesday morning and the mail does not leave for the south untill the next Tuesday evening, so that nearly a week elapses before I can