Letters, mainly.

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RIP David Hockney
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Happy birthday to my favourite of all the haters, Charles Darwin
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Happy birthday Mozart!
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Diaries of Note is finally published tomorrow and I couldn't be prouder. A journey through the leap year via 366 diary entries from history. Diarists include Virginia Woolf, Nelson Mandela, Simone de Beauvoir, Elton John, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Derek Jarman, Audre Lorde...
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...Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Brian Eno, Joan Rivers, and hundreds of others. It's a beauty. Some online stockists: linktr.ee/DiariesofNote
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On this day in 1858. #perpetualorgy
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On this day in 1950, Sylvia Plath was me
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In 1913, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a profoundly moving letter to a friend who was grieving for her brother.
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Fabulous letter from the great Deborah Moggach in today’s Times.
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On this day in 1951, John Steinbeck was me.
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From Albert Einstein to Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf to Louis Theroux, get ready to discover the world’s most extraordinary diary entries. The Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time, coming this October from @ShaunUsher ✍️ @diariesofnote linktr.ee/DiariesofNote
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On this day in 1968, Ursula Le Guin was rejected. The Left Hand of Darkness was published the following year, won both the Nebula and the Hugo (making her the first woman to receive the latter), and went on to become a landmark of science fiction.
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A letter of advice from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his 11-year-old daughter: news.lettersofnote.com/p/don…
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Magnificent letterhead once used by Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman.
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Happy birthday to this unimprovable letter.
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You did justice to the dream of a child, by @LettersOfNote open.substack.com/pub/letter…

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