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#1
10 February, 1891
Professor Cramming,

I hope the school year has treated you well (although I feel as though I open every letter with this, so feel free not to comment this time).

One of the plot point in my upcoming novels focuses on a collection of magical papyrus scrolls, and only after I submitted it for a first round of editing did it dawn upon me that I must have taken inspiration from a tale you told me many years ago. Is it not you who discovered them in Egypt? Of course, I will rework the storyline if you take issue with being used as inspiration; I would much rather have this conversation now than when you pick up my book and decide to send me a scalding letter.

Forever in your debt,
Mr. Julian Fisk


Carmelina Cramming




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#2
13th February, 1891

Mr. Fisk,

A scalding letter! I would never — perhaps I would sneak a mild curse onto the parchment, but my letter would still be perfectly pleasant.

Of course I’m only teasing, because I don’t mind any of those papyri showing up in your novel, nor anything else familiar to me (unless it were a villain who suspiciously shared my name: then I would take wild offence). But I’m not surprised you’ve had to start pilfering bits and pieces from other people — what number book are you on, now? I doubt anyone could have had quite so many adventures in their life as that, even you.

So what’s the plot of this one?

Yours fondly,
Carmelina




#3
15 February, 1891
Professor Cramming,

But a curse would be such a predictable response; surely you would wish to throw me for a loop by sending a howler instead?

I tease as well. Look for your spot in the dedication page: "To Carmelina Cramming, my unwitting but ever-so-kind victim in this installment." This is the ninth one, but the third in a series I began shortly after the Irvingly fog. I would have been a fool not to capitalize on the sudden market for adventure-mysteries.

Sometimes I fear that I'm running out of ideas, but it seems every conversation I have leads to new ones. Now that I think about it, you do have the makings of a perfect villain. Smart, sensible, unsuspecting—you could curse a man and he'd seek your help breaking it.

Perhaps another book? I'm not sure you'd fit so well in this one. The protagonist is a Hogwarts graduate who makes an unbreakable vow with such vague wording that he'd forced to embark on a quest across Europe to prevent his own death. You don't seem the sort to trick men into unbreakable vows, do you?

Yours always,
Mr. Julian Fisk


Carmelina Cramming




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#4
19th February, 1891

Mr. Fisk,

I have to raise my voice at misbehaving youths often enough these days to warrant never sending another Howler if I can help it! It makes me relieved not to be a parent, I tell you.

Nearly nine books! I imagine you have been capitalising rather well on all those sales. Do you ever still miss the adventuring days? I daresay the writing side of things must be slightly more comfortable, a little less fraught with danger?

Though you would be in danger if you had not done so well at making ‘villainous’ seem a compliment. But on that topic, you’re quite right, I cannot think what I would gain in tricking anyone into unbreakable vows. I am rather excited to read this one, though; a quest across Europe for one’s own survival sounds lovely. Perhaps I will have to make those my summer plans.

As ever, of course, I am
your loyal reader,
Carmelina





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