Melinda's paper

I just read melinda's paper, and enjoyed it much more than most school papers.

There are few things I can suggest for your introduction. It's epistolary, and starting it anyway other than "dear friend" might be difficult, or a bad idea.

I thought you did a good job of capturing the voice of an 18th century person. And I liked how things seemed to double for this or that, instrumens=poe's voice.

The only concern I can think of is its length (big spaces between paragraphs), but I imagine it will be all right and think it's complete as is.