Letter of the Week
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Today in 1960, Roy Orbison had his first number one single: Today in 1962, the number one single in the U.S. was a song banned by the BBC: The number one single today in 1973 … … which bumped off this classic … … which made an eight-year-old TV viewer’s eyes nearly pop out of…
About the Archivist
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.
