I intended to have seen you before you left Boston. When I had a breathing place and sent for you found you had left.

I wanted to tell you then what I do now That after you asked my opinion of the title of your Novel that I got my eyes open for the first time to the astounding thought of becoming a heroine! Before, when you had spoken of such a thing, it was so far from any vision that had ever before entered my mortal dream I must have answered unwittingly As Written: unwitingly Not for all the world would I be put up at that pinnacle As Written: pinacle before the world. O my life is too sad, too awful, too real to be portrayed in fiction

What can I do to show my blunder at first to let such a thing be thought of? This I will do now, if you will, and you must, heed this remonstrance against making me a character in your work When I see your dear Mother I will receipt to her in full for her Normal Course at the College

My love to her