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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Do you remember life before the internet? Certainly, I remember life before the Internet but right now I’m going to talk about the inflection point, in my life. I was working as a finance person in Washington DC and I got a job offer from a database company, which became one of the most profitable…
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 