CHAPTER XIII.
MISS MITCHELL'S LETTERS--WOMAN SUFFRAGE--MEMBERSHIP IN VARIOUS SOCIETIES--PUBLISHED ARTICLES--DEATH--CONCLUSION Miss Mitchell was a voluminous letter writer and an excellent correspondent, but her letters are not essays, and not at all in the approved style of the "Complete Letter Writer." If she had any particular thing to communicate, she rushed into the subject in the first line.

In writing to her own family and intimate friends, she rarely signed her full name; sometimes she left it out altogether, but ordinarily "M.M." was appended abruptly when she had expressed all that she had to say.

She wrote as she talked, with directness and promptness.
No one, in watching her while she was writing a letter, ever saw her pause to think what she should say next or how she should express the thought.

When she came to that point, the "M.M." was instantly added.
She had no secretiveness, and in looking over her letters it has been almost impossible to find one which did not contain too much that was personal, either about herself or others, to make it proper; especially as she herself would be very unwilling to make the affairs of others public.
"Oct.

22, 1860.