Letter of the Week
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The number one song today in 1969: Britain’s number one single today in 1979 probably would have gotten no American notice had it not been for the beginning of MTV a year later: The number one album today in 1986 was Huey Lewis and the News’ “Fore”: The City of Los Angeles declared today in…
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.
