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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Describe your dream chocolate bar. It has been a long time running. Many years ago I worked with a girl named Sheila at the Chocolate factory in town. We were casual friends at work. She was the first person to sit with me during our lunch break. Finding somebody to sit with at lunch took…
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.