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A newsletter about old letters (and other historical artifacts) and the stories they tell about the people who left them behind.

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About Leah Redmond Chang

Author of *Young Queens*โœจ Translator of letters in *Portraits of the Queen Mother* โœจ Recovering academic who still loves scholarship โœจI also love old letters and books, and the people who made them โœจ Big fan of cemeteries and afternoon cortados ๐Ÿชฆโ˜•๏ธ

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