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  • July 2008

    • Miley Spread Jams VF's Inbox

      newser  |  Women's Wear Daily  |  Jul 15, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Miley Spread Jams VF's Inbox

      Readers really responded to Vanity Fair ’s now-infamous Miley Cyrus photo spread—but not in a bad way. The 915 letters were by far a record, but editor Graydon Carter tells Women's Wear Daily he's seen much worse on the outrage scale: “They were much kinder than the letters we got when Christopher Hitchens took on Mother Teresa. I got angry letters from staff members on that one." More »

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      email  • Miley Cyrus  • Vanity Fair  • photographs  • letters  • hate mail  • Graydon Carter

  • May 2008

    • Letters Show Fritzl Daughter Meant to Leave Home

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 8, 08 11:08 AM CDT

      Letters Show Fritzl Daughter Meant to Leave Home

      Elisabeth Fritzl intended to leave home just before her father imprisoned her, letters published in the Oesterreich newspaper show. “After the exams … I'm moving in with my sister and her boyfriend,” the 18-year-old wrote to a friend in 1984. “Cross your fingers for me. When you get this letter, it will all be over,” she wrote just weeks before she disappeared. More »

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      rape  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • abuse  • letters

  • April 2008

    • Mugabe Love Story Sparked Hatred of UK

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Apr 6, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      Mugabe Love Story Sparked Hatred of UK

      Robert Mugabe's hatred of the British may have stemmed from an affair of the heart, reports the Independent. Newly released letters from the 1960s show the future tyrant openly begged London not to deport his then-wife, Sally Mugabe, who had fled Rhodesia in the 1960s when he was jailed for anti-colonial activities. "It is certainly unfair for the British government to add to the misery of her already broken life," Mugabe wrote. More »

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      United Kingdom  • Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • letters  • deportation  • Rhodesia

    • Lincoln Letter Sells for $3.4M

      newser  |  CNN  |  Apr 4, 08 10:08 AM CDT

      Lincoln Letter Sells for $3.4M

      An 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln to Massachusetts schoolchildren fetched a record $3.4 million at auction yesterday, a record for an American manuscript, CNN reports. In the letter, Lincoln responded to a petition from 195 youngsters asking him to "free all the little slave children of this country" with a heartfelt reply saying it was God's will that they be freed. An anonymous American collector bought the letter. More »

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      auction  • Sotheby's  • letters  • Abraham Lincoln  • slavery  • Civil War

  • March 2008
  • January 2008

    • Thousands Glued to WWI Blog

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jan 6, 08 5:38 PM CST

      Thousands Glued to WWI Blog

      Does he live, or lose his life to "liquid fire and bombs"? That question is keeping tens of thousands glued to a site that is posting the letters of a World War I soldier in real time, 90 years after they were written. The soldier's grandson, who collected the letters, prefers to leave readers in the dark: "That is the way it would have been at home," he said. More »

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      Internet  • Great Britain  • soldier  • blog  • letters  • World War I

  • December 2007
  • November 2007

    • Wharton Letter Bolsters Suicide Theory

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Nov 21, 07 5:47 PM CST

      Wharton Letter Bolsters Suicide Theory

      A recently-discovered letter by Edith Wharton provides new evidence in The House of Mirth's lingering literary mystery , suggesting that heroine Lily Bart does, in fact, intend to kill herself at the book's end, the New York Times reports. Though the ambiguous text has led many to believe she died of an accidental overdose, Wharton's letter states that a fictional "friend of mine has made up her mind to commit suicide." More »

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      book  • suicide  • literature  • letters  • biography  • Edith Wharton

  • August 2007

    • Is the Writing on the Wall for Letter Writing?

      newser  |  CNET  |  Aug 26, 07 6:54 PM CDT

      Is the Writing on the Wall for Letter Writing?

      A quarter of teens call snail mail the most passé way to convey in 2007. But the great-granddaughter of an etiquette doyenne wants to rescue letters before the 'Net makes them extinct. She says ink on paper still carries “more weight” than email, not to mention leaving a permanent record. "Consider the 'Letters of Emily Dickinson,'” said Cindy Post Senning. “What if she had e-mail?" More »

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      Internet  • email  • letters  • communication  • etiquette  • mail

    • Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 12, 07 8:06 PM CDT

      Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage

      Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals one of her long-held secrets in a new collection of letters published for the centenary of her birth, the Guardian reports. Titled “My Beloved Doctor,” they express her anguish over being unable to bear Diego Rivera’s child after injuries she suffered in a tram crash. “I cried a lot, but it's over, there is nothing else that can be done,” Kahlo writes. More »

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      Mexico  • book  • letters  • biography  • artist  • painter  • Frida Kahlo

  • July 2007

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