Letters
The Unsent Letters of a Boston Printer
In a basement at the American Antiquarian Society, the unpublished correspondence of a forgotten Boston printer reveals what a working life looked like before the telephone.
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A Letter from Bennington: How a 1956 Note Closed a Vermont Property Case That Began in 1759
In April 1956, a retired schoolteacher in Bennington, Vermont, found a folded letter in a copy of Cowper's poems. It resolved a property dispute that had been open since the colonial period.
Letters
The 4,800 Pages of Eliza Bertram
For thirty-two years, a small-town Iowa schoolteacher wrote down every day. What she made was not a diary. It was a country.
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The Vanished Notebooks of John Burley: A Boston Court Reporter's Lost Shorthand, 1858-1891
For thirty-three years, a deaf court reporter named John Burley transcribed Boston's Suffolk Superior Court in a personal shorthand only he could read. His notebooks have been searched for since 1894.