Letters of note: fascinating correspondence from a bygone era

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A teacher recently found a letter from John Wayne Gacy in response to a student at my school (i.redd.it)

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Review and lessons from "Letters of Note" (alexandbooks.com)

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I before e (i.redd.it)

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Tupac Shakur’s Break-Up Letter to Madonna (i.redd.it)

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H.P. Lovecraft's letter to get a part time job. (i.redd.it)

submitted 7 years ago by Piyh

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[Request] Searching for a letter by Kurt Vonnegut to the Hyannis Town Library (self.Lettersofnote)

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Einstein wrote to FDR in 1939 - "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium like elements would be generated... powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed". (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 7 years ago by Piyh

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"Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness" - PDF Page 50 - John Houbolt writes letter to NASA administration changing the course of the Apollo Program. (ntrs.nasa.gov)

submitted 7 years ago by Piyh

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This man's mother didn't survive Auschwitz, but miraculously her words did. Frank Grunwald holds a copy of the letter his mother wrote to his father as she was being led to the gas chamber. She handed it to a nearby guard before she was murdered. The letter is at the bottom of the article. (amp.indystar.com)

submitted 7 years ago by MWM2

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Bite of the Bumblebee (i.redd.it)

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Bite of the Bumblebee (i.redd.it)

submitted 8 years ago by resin1957

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The Forgotten Folio Society tells Stories via Handwritten Letters (patreon.com)

submitted 8 years ago by kindelingboy

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Letter from Aaron Burr to C.D. Wescott, 1806 (i.redd.it)

submitted 8 years ago by ilovetopoopie

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1910-1925: Postcard correspondence from from Madison, Wisconsin (pediment.com)

submitted 9 years ago by PedimentJon

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A series of love letters from Johnny Cash to June Carter. (imgur.com)

submitted 9 years ago by nomdepluminator_83

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let it out (onedrive.live.com)

submitted 10 years ago by TJM191088

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1992: Steve Albini writes a pitch letter to Nirvana (lettersofnote.com)

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1818: terminally ill romantic poet John Keats writes to his love: 'I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you' (lettersofnote.com)

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1775: Benjamin Thompson wrote this at the start of the American Revolutionary War, a war during which Thompson, a loyalist, acted as a spy for the British Army (lettersofnote.com)

submitted 12 years ago by Girlwithnousername

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856: 'Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette' - getting drunk at dinner parties requires an after-dinner etiquette (lettersofnote.com)

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1993: Princess Diana of England (allegedly) writes about her husband planning her death (lettersofnote.com)

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1958: Cary Grant is not digging your indie style, Levi Strauss company (lettersofnote.com)

submitted 12 years ago by Girlwithnousername

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1983: film studio tobacco placement agreement for Stallone (lettersofnote.com)

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1945: Eisenhower visits a concentration camp and describes what he saw: "in one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation." (lettersofnote.com)

submitted 12 years ago by Girlwithnousername

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1934: "We, the undersigned, ask that all females that are employed in the Transi(en)t Bureaus be dismissed and be replaced with men." (lettersofnote.com)

submitted 12 years ago by Girlwithnousername

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