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On this day in letters.
On this day in 1984, Rik Mayall wrote to Bob Geldof. (Includes a reading by Ade Edmondson!) https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/picture-the-scene
Picture the scene

Rik Mayall writes to Bob Geldof

Letters of Note
Both Margaret and Caroline declined. The next year, however, Ralph married their older sister, Mary.
On this day in 1840, French novelist Gustave Flaubert was happy to be home.
On the centenary of his birth, some letters of note from the desk of Kurt Vonnegut: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/most-letters-from-a-parent-contain
Take life seriously but none of the people in it

A Kurt Vonnegut Megamix

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On this day in 1958, John Steinbeck wrote to his teenage son, Thom, who had recently fallen for someone.
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had asked “What makes a good citizen?"
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn, born on this day in 1908.