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Louis Armstrong, signing off

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Shaun Usher
Dec 28, 2020
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Last week I sent you a list of salutations found atop Simone de Beauvoir’s correspondence with Nelson Algren. Today, we head in the other direction. Here, to amuse and inspire, is a list of sign-offs from the pen of Louis Armstrong, a jazz genius whose many letters—a stream of consciousness-style…

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