July 13th, 1888
Dear A. C.,I, too, enjoy reading a great deal. It would seem we have more in common than I would have anticipated.
I hope you'll forgive me if this is overly forthright of me, but how do you see a wife fitting in to your life? I cannot imagine there are many men who would want a wife to be anything but what society expects her to be, but there's little point in corresponding further unless you are one such exception.
I would not want to waste any more of your time.
Yours sincerely,
Miss S.
Miss S.

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