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 a skill you consider basic, that most people don’t actually know how to do? I just made a small purchase of 9.20. Quick calculation and I gave the clerk an additional dollar so he didn’t have to give me any ones. It sent the calculation into wild fluctuations. the change sold have been. Your…
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.
My Pictures Of You 