My letters were of course read before they were sent out, and the answers read before they reached me.

No respect being shown for the privacies of affection, I addressed my letters to Dr.Aveling for publication in the _Freethinker_.
One of these documents lies before me as I write.

It was the extra letter I sent to my wife before leaving, and contains directions as to clothes and other domestic matters.

I venture to reproduce the advertisement, which occupies the whole front page: "A prisoner is permitted to write and receive a Letter after three months of his sentence have expired, provided his conduct and industry have been satisfactory during that time, and the same privilege will be continued afterwards on the same conditions and at the same intervals.
"All Letters of an improper or idle tendency, either to or from Prisoners, or containing slang or other objectionable expressions, will be suppressed.

The permission to write and receive letters is given to the Prisoners for the purpose of enabling them to keep up a connexion with their respectable friends, and not that they may hear the news of the day.
"All Letters are read by the Authorities of the Prison, and must be legibly written, and not crossed.
"Neither clothes, money, nor any other articles, are allowed to be received by any Officers of the Prison for the use of Prisoners; all parcels containing such articles intended for Prisoners on discharge must bear outside the name of the Prisoner, and be sent to the Governor, or they will not be received.