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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Hey Twenty Year Old Self? Hey, you 20 year old self , I know you’re graduating from college right now and I’m happy to see you got a typewriter for a graduation gift. Take that little typewriter and put it on the shelf. It will be a relic from the past. I’m going to tell…
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 