martha, it was never that kind of love match. but in the year before he died, after he left the presidency, he wrote to her. she had she and her husband had been loyalists and they'd gone to england to live and never came back. so this was 40 years later and he wrote her this this letter 'm sorry. it's hard for me to do, but five and 20, my dear madam, five and 20 years have nearly passeaway since've considered myself as a permanent resident at this place, ohave been in a situation to indulge myself in a familiar intercourse with my friends by letter or otherwise during this period. so many important events have occurred and such changes in men and things have taken place as the corpus of a letter would give you but an inadequate idea, none of which events, however, nor all of them together, have been able to eradicate. from my mind the recollection of those happy moments happiest in my life, which i've enjoyed in your company. this was all under line, and the original letter worn out in a manner by the toils of my past labor. i'