Letter of the Week
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Henry Laurens spent Christmas morning 1763 in much the same way he spent every other day that monumental year, and in much the same way the western world does in the twenty-first century: conducting business. Highlighting the patience required in a transatlantic eighteenth-century world, Henry explained that since he last wrote to the firm in…
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This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.