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A great desert lies ahead of me

A touching letter from Edith Wharton

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Shaun Usher
Oct 15, 2025
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The following letter was written on this day in 1927. It can be found in the book, Letters of Note: Grief, personalised/gift-wrapped copies of which can be bought here. I’m also embedding audio of this letter being read beautifully by Crystal Clarke, taken from the audiobook of the same name.

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