January 4th, 1879
Dear Ms. Hooper,
I take my pen in hand to write about our current situation. As you must know by now, our fathers took upon themselves to arrange a wedding between the two of us. I shall be honest, even though i did enjoy your company at the New Year's Eve party we both attended (heaven knows you were the only attendant with some sort of intelligence), I must admit that this event is not the most practical for me. As you know, my profession requires a lot of dedication and I fear that I wouldn't be a good husband to you. Hence why I think it is necessary, for your sake of course,that you somehow convince your father that such an arrangement is unwelcome.
Faithfully,
Sherlock Holmes
January 7th, 1879
Dear Mr. Holmes,
I acknowledge the receipt of your last letter, which now lies before me, and in which you inform me of a matter I had no knowledge of. I have therefore talked to my father about this and he indeed confirmed your words. I too enjoyed our meeting at your brother's party but had I known of our father's arrangement I would not have spend so much time with you for I do not wish to be the cause of gossip. I regard you as a dear friend of mine and I shall forbid that such an arrangement comes between our friendship therefore I shall talk to my father and attempt to dissuade him.
Your friend,
Molly Hooper
January 11th, 1879
Dear Ms. Hooper,
I am quite relieved that you seem to see eye to eye with me on this matter. I do too hold you in my highest regards for you are a good friend but as I have written before, I would make a terrible husband especially to someone as kind and patient as you. I was informed that your father did change his mind, for your attempt at dissuading him was successful like I knew it would be. My dear Ms. Hooper I believe that you deserve a better man than my terrible self but please do not ever lose your fondness of science.
Faithfully ,
Sherlock Holmes
Edit: Thank you to that guest reviewer for correcting me. Even though I'm French that was quite simply a silly mistake.
