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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What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? By definition “Living” primarily refers to the condition of being alive, the pursuit of a livelihood to sustain oneself, or the state of residing somewhere. Beyond its literal dictionary definitions, “living” takes on deeply philosophical and personal meanings depending on how you choose to shape your day-to-day existence.…
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.