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I came across a website that has hundreds of fascinating letters from throughout history. The letters are serious, mysterious, and funny.

Here’s an astonishing letter written by a freed slave to his former master:

To My Old Master

Here’s a brilliant letter written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to a school board head who burned his book Slaughterhouse-Five:

I am very real

There’s a letter from Gandhi to Hitler, a letter from Barack Obama to a kid with 2 dads, a letter from Beethoven to his “immortal beloved,” a letter from Douglas Adams to a movie studio executive, and several letters back and forth between Gene Roddenberry and Isaac Asimov.

The archive is here, where you can search for letters based on various criteria:

Letters of Note: Archive