Happy birthday to the following letters, all written on the 10th day of a November gone by.
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After being so social, I don’t feel like myself at all. I’m exhausted all over but particularly the face, which I suppose comes from wearing a horrible fixed grin for so long.
Elizabeth Bishop
Letter to Carley Dawson
10th November 1948
(From One Art: Letters)
I saw a…
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