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 funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? Well, I was not part of it, but this happened today in Germany. A passenger on a train passing over a railway bridge spotted a woman wearing a mermaid costume swimming in the Rhine near Mainz. Believing it to be an emergency, the witness notified the…
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 