Letters of Note, A Collection of Fascinating Correspondence Throughout History

by Scott Beale on September 16, 2009 · 1 comment

Elvis Nixon

Letters of Note is a wonderful collection of fascinating correspondence throughout history, including letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes and emails. Above is Elvis Presley’s letter to President Nixon, which lead to their historic meeting.

via Joe Stump

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1 Javier Arbona September 16, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Especially of note because it demonstrates that American Airlines even used to provide In Flight correspondence note pads (and maybe they still do in 1st class if you ask? dunno. cus I don’t fly 1st). Nonetheless, now they want to charge for wifi…?

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