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 is the best purchase you have ever made? 1. Razor – One of the best purchase I ever made was a razor I bought in Mainz. Naturally I needed to shave. But that purchase was special as I confidently walked in the store and spoke precise German, with confidence. 2. Kopfhörer – cheap headphones…

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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.