Letters

I'll write to you. A super-long letter like in an old-fashioned novel.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote to each other. And P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie (and George Orwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). So did Catherine the Great and Voltaire. J. R. R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis wrote to each other. T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx (although they stopped writing after the first time they met each other face-to-face). Of course Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, but also to Marlene Dietrich.

I like reading letters that famous people have written to one another. They just get so angry when I take the letters out of their mailboxes.