He said he was well and was looking about for the best place to settle . He liked the country fine . He was at a place called Red Butte and guessed he 'd locate there . Two weeks later he wrote again . He had taken up a claim of three hundred acres . Greene and Cary had done the same . They were his nearest neighbours and were three miles away . He had knocked up a little shack , was learning to cook his own meals , and was very busy . He thought the country was a grand one and the prospects good . Theodosia answered his letter and told him all the Heatherton news . She signed herself `` Theodosia Brooke , '' but otherwise there was nothing in the letter to indicate that it was written by a wife to her husband . At the end of a year Wesley wrote and once more asked her to go out to him . He was getting on well , and was sure she would like the place . It was a little rough , to be sure , but time would improve that . `` Wo n't you let bygones be bygones , Dosia ? '' he wrote , `` and come out to me . Do , my dear wife . '' Theodosia wrote back , refusing to go . She never got any reply , nor did she write again . People had given up talking about the matter and asking Theodosia when she was going out to Wes .
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