Letter of the Week
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S C E N E (VI) دير عز الزور Der Ez-Zor, Syria, 2017ce Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria *** Flaming, low-lying wreckage spreads before us in every direction. The ruins of an already desolated land. Sprawling two-story compounds along a mighty river. Pockmarked with rifle rounds. Misery is found everywhere. Syria is now a byword for total warfare, and over 600,000 people have so far died. “A Revolution in a…
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.
WALTER SEBASTIAN ADLER 