Title: My Mind On Paper
Fandom: Gentleman Jack
Length: 100
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply.
Author note: also a fill for the Paper square on my bingo card.
Summary: Letters are expensive.



Letters are expensive. Your recipient pays the cost by weight. You fill each sheet, then turn it and write across. When a scholar comes to read them, a century and more after your death, she will turn, defeated, from your chequer-work, till the friendly archivist says “Did you know she kept a journal?”

In those twenty-seven volumes, your life is laid out, plain-hand and crypt-hand; decoded, hidden away, and decoded again. Your gift to the world: I love & only love the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs.