[Florence Fenwick Miller. journalist, author and social reformer] Autograph Letter Signed F. Fenwick Miller to publisher Mr Sonnenschein, trenchantly stating her conditions for writing and suggesting some advertising.

Four pages, 12mo, , bifolium, minor staing on 'spine', text clear and in good condition. Text: I hope you will not think me an abnormally business-like member of my sex when I tell you that I am absolutely incapable of writing an article without knowing beforehand that I am to be properly remunerated providing I do my work satisfactorily! Such is my unlucky constitution; & I find I cannot begin the article on Geo. Eliot for 'Time', till the important question of [?] terms is satisfactorily dealt with. May I beg you therefore to send me the enclosed [not present; contract?] at once? If I get an answer by Tuesday, I can begin on that day. | If I am to go on, would it not be worth while to send a par. [paragraph?] to the Athenaeum [underlined] 'gossip' - 'Mrs F.M. will treat Geo. Eliot's Life in the next number of 'Time'.' You will have seen that the reviewers in most of the Monthlies are thus [accustomed?] [the?] last & this week. See Image. Note: In early October, 1888, she wrote to the London Daily News to make the point that, as horrible and as depraved the Jack the Ripper murders might be, they were, in a way, the fault of society at large, and of the courts in particular, for taking such a lenient view of violence towards women. [Jack the Ripper Tour].