A Life in Letters

My parents lived in the world before email, and they and their friends were prolific correspondents. I've become fascinated with the picture these letters provide of twentieth-century life among a group of friends.

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Monday, October 30, 2023

Elliotts to Morgans, Port Ludlow, 1946 -- "The rediscovered sweetness of his life"

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Murray was released from the Army, and therefore from Washington, D.C.,  in early 1946. They made their way home to Puget Sound, with a few ...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Charles Olson to Morgans, March 26, 1947 -- "I ate yr praise like the child I am"

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I find most of Charles Olson's poetry bewildering, but his letters are wonderful. He took a liking to my folks when he met them in 1945,...
Friday, March 17, 2023

To Lane, maybe 1960 -- "Start no fires, touch no wires"

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   The note is from Murray, the correction is from Rosa. I would have been 9 or 10. I don't remember who Mae was,  
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