A bit of a history lesson disguised as a story, that's exactly what I was expecting from these short stories for kids and I think it's brilliant. Well, brilliant at that at least.

It makes sense they'd use this framing device for this story, and the ending which makes use of it is fun, but I don't really think the actual story itself works great as a letter, and some of the writing feels just a bit out of character for Rose (mostly just a choice of phrase here and there, but enough to take me out of it a little).

Also the fact they pretty much gloss over the guy who drowned in ink at the start isn't great. Even if they were possessed those workers are going to have some trauma that they did it, it's just a bit of a strange thing to include.