Letter of the Week

  • What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Humor sometimes. I was writing an essay yesterday. The first paragraph is my writing. The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin. There was a social event in our neighborhood that…

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  • What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? Does anyone actually need to read 1,088 pages, complete with footnotes? I’ll keep this posted just under 1088 pages I did —but if, like me, you cannot resist spending some time with one of the finest and most fragile intellects of our age, give this enormous tome a…

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Farewell

About the Archivist

This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.

Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.