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This rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury
Moments before the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, a letter fell from the sky
Shaun Usher
11 hr ago
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Is nature a gigantic cat?
Nikola Tesla on his fascination with cats and electricity
Shaun Usher
Aug 8
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Live like a mighty river
Ted Hughes writes to his son
Shaun Usher
Aug 5
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What a hell of a bore to have to think of it even
Please forgive me
Shaun Usher
Aug 4
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The differences are really negligible, apart from so far not falling over and breaking my leg
On this day in letters
Shaun Usher
Aug 3
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The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off
James Baldwin writes to his nephew
Shaun Usher
Aug 2
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I don’t think lady-footballers will ever be able to ‘shoot’ goals
PLUS: Noël Coward corrects Ian Fleming, and Anaïs Nin burns Henry Miller
Shaun Usher
Aug 1
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So perfect is my love for you that I am, as it were, still, silent to my very soul
A love letter from Katherine Mansfield
Shaun Usher
Jul 21
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Others believe a poet ought to go to the Moon
Months before the Moon landing, NASA discusses the first words to be uttered
Shaun Usher
Jul 20
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If I ever get to be 91, I hope I’ll be as mean as you are
A Hunter S. Thompson Megamix
Shaun Usher
Jul 18
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I suppose a skonk had been there or else a hen In the shape of a skonk
Kids write the funniest things
Shaun Usher
Jul 16
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I shall always be near you
Sullivan Ballou writes home
Shaun Usher
Jul 14
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