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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How do you feel about cold weather? I moved to the West Coast to get away from the hot summers of Washington DC in Pennsylvania. The summers are now approaching. What was the East Coast weather? So any cold weather is encouraging. This depresses me. El Niño is coming faster than expected in the Pacific…
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.