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'You may love your husband very much, but you should face the fact that he has no talent'
Rebecca West's most extraordinary letter
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I am so proud of you, our Soviet girl
The first woman in space
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'Once more I am a wretch'
On This Day in Letters (15th June edition)
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Jun 15
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What did you say? I can't hear you…
18 years after the death of Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn writes him a letter
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Jun 10
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Picture the scene
Rik Mayall writes to Bob Geldof
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Jun 9
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And how are all of you?
A Dorothy Parker Megamix
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Jun 8
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Yours in distress
Shortly before his death in 1952, Alan Turing wrote to his friend and fellow mathematician, Norman Routledge.
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Jun 7
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Each egg is a perfect thing
It’s difficult to believe that time could pass so quickly but having tripled-checked the date and referred to multiple calendars I can confirm with som…
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Jun 3
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