Letter of the Week
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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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List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Tale of Two Cities is the first classic that I read in the eighth grade. I remember most characters to this day. I learned what satire is, and I learned to pay attention for a long time. I Know This Much is True I…
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.
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