Archive - Letters of Note

Cross my heart and hope to die

A rejection letter from Saturday Night Live

Feb 18 •

I intend firmly to ignore St. Valentine’s day

Letters of Love

Feb 14 •

And a whole bunch of footnotes

Feb 12 •

We the undersigned three Apes and a Wombat

Congratulations from Virginia Woolf

Feb 6 •

Songs Without Words

Felix Mendelssohn explains his work

Feb 4 •

January 2025

The author intended the story to be repugnant

Maxwell Perkins defends The Great Gatsby

Jan 28 •

It is more likely that I was doing 911 km/h

How to dodge a speeding ticket (with a performance by Taika Waititi)

Jan 27 •

A slightly ghoulish prospect looms today

When oaths are sworn

Jan 20 •

Would you please answer me this one question?

A 13-year-old girl writes to the U.S. President

Jan 19 •

Please don't see the film Eraserhead

A mixed mailbag

Jan 18 •

I’ll never see that smile again

Weeks after his death, Marie Curie writes to her husband

Jan 16 •

I promise that your future correspondence will be returned to you unopened

On this day in letters

Jan 12 •

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