We know extremely little of the intimate side of Wren’s life. The only document, but that a very precious one, is the autograph love-letter in the heirloom _Parentalia_ written by him to Faith. It is as follows: MADAM, The Artificer having never before mett with a drowned watch; like an ignorant physician has been soe long about the cure, that he hath made me very unquiet that your comands should be soe long deferred: however I have sent the watch at last, and envie the felicity of it, that it should be soe neer your side, and soe often enjoy your Eye, and be consulted by you how your time shall passe while you employ your hand in your excellent workes. But have a care of it, for I have put such a Spell into it; that every Beating of the Ballance will tell you, ’tis the pulse of my Heart, which labours as much to serve you and more trewly than the watch; for the watch I believe will sometimes lie, and sometimes perhaps be idle and unwilling to goe, having received soe much injury by being drenched in that briny bath, that I dispair it should ever be a trew Servant to you more: But as for me (unless you drown me too in my teares) you may be confident I shall never cease to be Your most affectionate humble servant CHR: WREN. _June 14._ I have put the watch in a Box that it might take noe harme, and wrapt it about with a little leather, and that it might not jog, I was fain to fill up a few shavings of wast paper. The letter is dated June 14, but there is nothing to show whether it was written soon or long before Wren’s marriage to Faith. His subscription is hardly passionate, and we know from the enchanting letters of Dorothy Osborne that even in Puritan days such letters were signed, “I am perfectly yours.” Wren’s marriage to Faith Coghill took place on December 7, 1669, at the Temple Church, but most of his domestic events thereafter are connected with St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, which was his parish church. His first son, Gilbert, died an infant. His second, Christopher, was born in February, 1674-5, and baptized at St. Martin’s. This first marriage only lasted a few years, for Faith Wren was buried at St. Martin’s on September 4, 1675. Wren soon consoled himself, for he was married on February 24, 1676-7, at the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace, to Jane, daughter of William Lord Fitzwilliam of Lifford. By this marriage Wren had a beloved daughter, Jane, who was baptized in November, 1677, at St. Martin’s, and a son, William, born in June, 1679. But Wren was soon again to become a widower. His second wife was buried at St. Martin’s on October 6, 1680. It is rather surprising that there is no monument to either of Sir Christopher’s wives at St. Martin’s, although some tablets from the pre-Gibbs Church are preserved in the crypt.