Letter of the Week
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Today in 1963, Ed Sullivan was at Heathrow Airport in London just as the Beatles deplaned to a crowd of screaming fans and a mob of journalists and photographers. Intrigued, Sullivan decided to investigate getting the Beatles onto his show. Today in 1964, Ray Charles was arrested at Logan Airport in Boston and charged with…
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.
