Letters of Note
Shaun UsherNothing but history's most interesting letters.
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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines
Please join me in wishing the happiest of birthdays to the following letters1, all written on the third day of a July gone by.
Photo by Robert Natkin/Getty Images
It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am alw...
I want to be the water that bathes you
Nothing really connects the letters below, but for one reason or another they’ve all been on my mind recently. I thought you might enjoy them too.
Frida Kahlo in 1926, photographed by her father. (Photo: Google Arts & Culture)
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AIDS is not a disgrace, it is a TRAGEDY
1998: Patsy Clarke, co-founder of Mothers Against Jesse in Congress (MAJIC). (Photo by Will And Deni McIntyre/Getty Images)
On this day in 1995, a year after her son, Mark, died of AIDS at the age of 31, Patsy Clarke wrote the following le...
Please consider my own position
King George VI and Winston Churchill in 1944 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
By June 1944, Winston Churchill had decided that directing the war from London was not enough. He wanted to witness the D-Day landings from HMS Belfast and...
You don't breathe, you bubble
The only acceptable way to write letters during a heatwave (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane Austen
Letter to Cassandra Austen
18...
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I really like letters. I began the Letters of Note website in 2009 and have since authored 14 Letters of Note books. I also like lists. The Lists of Note website began in 2011; a book followed in 2014.
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