# LettersOfNote.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234 "2009-12-22T20:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/1 "2009-12-22T20:34:13Z")
Rather surprised that [this](http://www.lettersofnote.com/) website had escaped my notice. Scans of famous correspondence through history. I don’t mean a copy of the Magna Carta - more like a copy of a letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote to his family from a repatriation camp after being rescued from Slaughterhouse Five. Or two responses from Isaac Asimov Jerry Kosinski upon being asked to “describe the sky.” I haven’t wasted this much time since TV Tropes. Happy Holidays! ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/2 "2009-12-22T21:19:01Z")
I just ran across this site recently too. It is very interesting – much more than I would have expected even. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/3 "2009-12-22T22:12:05Z")
I meant to reply earlier to say “thanks for this,” but I keep paging back through earlier entries. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/4 "2009-12-22T22:16:39Z")
Thanks for this. Vonnegut’s letter is amazing – so very recognizably his style, the terse description of one hell after another, the sadness tempered with humor – the repetition of the phrase, “but not me.” Amazing that he could write so well about it so soon afterwards. I don’t know how he wasn’t left catatonic. The stuff he went through was incredible. He should have written a book about it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/5 "2009-12-22T22:33:15Z")
There go my holidays. That Bowie one is adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/6 "2009-12-23T11:40:13Z")
Coincidentally, a “clip show” of _Antiques Roadshow_ ran recently that had Virginia O’Hanlon’s great-grandson bring in the actual letter that made her famous. Wonder if it’s in there somewhere? ETA: [Indeed, it is.](http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/yes-virginia-there-is-santa-claus.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/7 "2009-12-23T16:14:06Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The stuff he went through was incredible. He should have written a book about it. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/8 "2009-12-23T20:35:24Z")
I’ve seen the letter to Ford from Barrow at the Henry Ford Museum. I’ve read no one can confirm he wrote it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lettersofnote-com/522234/9 "2009-12-23T21:33:15Z")
I’m glad to see – er, be reminded, that is, that my response to the Skymail project was the more cordial of the two posted. 🙂