We feel doubly bereft

A lovely bright light went out for us

May 12, 2021

∙ Paid

The following letter is taken from Letters of Note: Grief, a moving collection of correspondence from the pens and typewriters of Audre Lorde, Robert Frost, Nick Cave, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Kahlil Gibran, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Edith Wharton, and many others. Find out more here.

On 22 November 1963, as an open-top motorc…

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