FROM MISS MIRANDA MOPE, IN PARIS, TO MRS.

ABRAHAM C.MOPE, AT BANGOR, MAINE.
September 5th, 1879.
My dear mother--I have kept you posted as far as Tuesday week last, and, although my letter will not have reached you yet, I will begin another before my news accumulates too much.

I am glad you show my letters round in the family, for I like them all to know what I am doing, and I can't write to every one, though I try to answer all reasonable expectations.
But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I suppose you know--not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that you never required of me more than was natural.

You see you are reaping your reward: I write to you before I write to any one else.
There is one thing, I hope--that you don't show any of my letters to William Platt.

If he wants to see any of my letters, he knows the right way to go to work.