Susie dear, your letter was a great pleasure to me. I am glad you like the new book; & your descriptionⒶemendation of its effect on Daisy is all that the most exacting & most praise-hungry author could desire. And by the way, this reminds me to appoint you to write me two or three times a week in Mamma’s place; & when you write she must not write. What I am after is to save her. She writes me when she oughtⒶemendation to be resting herself after the heavy fatigues of the day. It is wrong. It must be stopped. You must stop it.

When it is your day to write & you have been prevented, see to it that the day passes without a letter, she must not write a line.