Seriously, sir, I am very much obliged to you for your kind and candid letter.

I almost wonder you took the trouble to read and notice the novelette of an anonymous scribe, who had not even the manners to tell you whether he was a man or a woman, or whether his 'C.

T.' meant Charles Timms or Charlotte Tomkins." There are two or three things noticeable in the letter from which these extracts are taken.

The first is the initials with which she had evidently signed the former one to which she alludes.

About this time, to her more familiar correspondents, she occasionally calls herself "Charles Thunder," making a kind of pseudonym for herself out of her Christian name, and the meaning of her Greek surname.