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 do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? For your entire life, you have been younger then you are right now as you are reading this. I think I probably answered this before, and there are so many things that fall into this category. Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking As a child, I…

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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.