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2026 17

  1. One by one the lights go out
  2. A poet must write about love!
  3. It was all too sordid
  4. Nothing beats having good references
  5. To the Police Officer who helped me on September 11th
  6. I AM NOW ON CLOUD 9,000
  7. Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines
  8. I want to be the water that bathes you
  9. AIDS is not a disgrace, it is a TRAGEDY
  10. Please consider my own position
  11. You don't breathe, you bubble
  12. How clever and capricious you are
  13. Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties
  14. We are all sailing away to the sea
  15. He looks like a blimp
  16. I am surprised at the conduct of the young woman
  17. What we have got to have in this world is a change of heart

2025 58

  1. The crime of malicious rottenness
  2. The anguish must be borne
  3. All my senses are being tortured simultaneously
  4. What do I want for Christmas?
  5. It’s a masterpiece
  6. 1984 v A Brave New World
  7. I love my wife, my wife is dead
  8. A great desert lies ahead of me
  9. Diaries of Note is here
  10. Do you think I shall ever write a really good book?
  11. He came and rearranged our molecules
  12. How to turn down an invitation
  13. A few moments ago I was handed my very first American fan letter
  14. Spook, Spuck, Spack, Speek, Spouk, Spaak, Spilk, Spiak, Spunk, Spank, Spink...
  15. All the ladies like whiskers
  16. You must refill the hot tub after your parties
  17. Your books are still helping those who have remained
  18. Art is....
  19. I hope you will never get this letter
  20. Am I really writing it at all?
  21. You go to hell, you
  22. His life has now passed over into yours
  23. To The Man Who Killed My Dog
  24. What cure is there for human stupidity?
  25. Diaries of Note
  26. As of today, we are no longer enemies
  27. How do we exist, save on the lips of our friends?
  28. Take your pick
  29. The parakeet has a goiter
  30. Do 13c
  31. Mrs. Slob of 1961
  32. Farewell from your ROTTING DONKEY
  33. IT WAS A BUSY YEAR AND THEN IT WASNT
  34. There is no one around and I can really breathe
  35. I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say
  36. He is the worst specimen I have met in 30 years’ service
  37. Spring is an explosion
  38. Most of your life will happen in the gray spaces between bliss and heartbreak
  39. I will make an infinite number of items for attack and defence
  40. I shall never be in
  41. The birds is coming
  42. No, no, no, sir! A thousand times no!
  43. I would accept neither his fame nor his fortune
  44. You can cry all the way to the bank
  45. Cross my heart and hope to die
  46. I intend firmly to ignore St. Valentine’s day
  47. Words of Note
  48. We the undersigned three Apes and a Wombat
  49. Songs Without Words
  50. The author intended the story to be repugnant
  51. It is more likely that I was doing 911 km/h
  52. A slightly ghoulish prospect looms today
  53. Would you please answer me this one question?
  54. Please don't see the film Eraserhead
  55. I’ll never see that smile again
  56. I promise that your future correspondence will be returned to you unopened
  57. You have given us so much more happiness than discontent
  58. Get out and begone to you, you horrible Old Year!

2024 85

  1. I thought I said no more birds
  2. What would I have done without you?
  3. The funniest looking Christmas party I ever saw
  4. Dame of what?
  5. Be a little vampire
  6. Lord what a repulsive remark to end with!
  7. All any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy
  8. I am Danny DeVito’s mother
  9. Hail to you who forever holds a tender spot in this immigrant’s heart
  10. ME HAVE COOKIE
  11. The Haitian people are noble and generous
  12. My life and creative work are justified and completed
  13. The Outsiders
  14. This is a present from a small distant world
  15. Be reasonable: what can I do?
  16. It literally touches all one’s senses
  17. ME? I LOVE SPRINGSTEEN!!!
  18. Have a Happy Period
  19. F I F T E E N
  20. What a horizon, what treasures of mind and spirit!
  21. You did justice to the dream of a child
  22. You provided us with the only possible remedy
  23. Excuse this ghastly handwriting
  24. How dare you
  25. Music to defecate to must be the final insult to the composer
  26. I must stop and fondle my dogs
  27. This country is in the hands of morons
  28. Please change your hold music
  29. He is a most exemplary young man
  30. Let us love each other
  31. I have never seen anything like it
  32. We will be millionaires before long
  33. The cat dumped a load in a Kleenex box
  34. I MISS LORINA BULWER
  35. I am not greatly troubled by fans nowadays
  36. You can beat it just like I did
  37. How d’you like my new vocabulary?
  38. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish
  39. My brains are hanging out like a dog’s tongue
  40. This is specially for the back of your neck
  41. I would like to give you your own history
  42. Damn the mail!
  43. I feel she is alive and I know she needs us
  44. I have a new plan
  45. Power corrupts
  46. Maybe a word from you will save me
  47. Five accidents in two minutes
  48. When you love a man, don’t spoil everything by marrying him
  49. I wish you were a Kangaroo
  50. The tiger is in the library
  51. I AM DESPERATE TO HAVE SOME REAL FUN AGAIN
  52. I MADE A BAD MISTAKE
  53. This I saw, this I experienced, this I know to be the truth
  54. You’re nothing but a pimp
  55. Maybe we should ban suits
  56. I would rather...
  57. My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area
  58. You have made me unhappy
  59. Eddie's House
  60. There is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills
  61. A great deal of the meaning seems to have gone out of the world
  62. Go for it
  63. Don’t read that hogwash
  64. A lousy proposition
  65. Live a life worth living
  66. Drink it
  67. Wherever you go there are always people
  68. If you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine
  69. I meet the proposition with unutterable scorn and contempt
  70. The thermometer will burst
  71. I'm amputating you
  72. It’s Your Turn to Take Care of Grandma
  73. It was SUPPRESSED RANDINESS
  74. What a world
  75. My heart almost stood still
  76. This is not a letter
  77. The most dreadful lie you ever told me
  78. We are just temporary occupants of this office
  79. A Plea for a raise
  80. Let us toast to animal pleasures
  81. The spectacle sickened me
  82. My child was perfect
  83. What a bawling and a tearing of hair there will be!
  84. Show that to your teacher
  85. One of the best things is being alone

2023 109

  1. One lurch nearer the grave
  2. Know that you are loved
  3. Do you still remember me?
  4. I’ve rarely taken such a fancy to anyone, and I think she likes me
  5. Christmas is a rotten hype & all we can do is ride it out
  6. Only Lisa can make Lisa happy
  7. There is no hope in war
  8. The kids have been looking up the dietary laws in the bible
  9. Thank you Mr. President
  10. Most people don’t know at all how beautiful the world is
  11. Sleep well my love
  12. There are no heroes in this war
  13. There is no escape
  14. I am completely dazzled, bewitched, enchanted, under a spell
  15. Time is the only hope and refuge for all of us
  16. You are not so kind as you used to be
  17. I am a 91 yr. old woman so vulgarity isn’t smart with me
  18. “What is the natural enemy of a duck?”
  19. Dear all
  20. P. S. Did you know policemen are numbered in case they get lost?
  21. We must win in the end
  22. Don’t fall down
  23. I've had my eye on you
  24. I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits
  25. Love and lollipops
  26. How brave all these living things are
  27. I am silent because I have literally nothing to say
  28. The solitude of prison forces the mind to grapple with many things
  29. We should always be judged by our achievements, not by our gender
  30. I hope you know you have a friend
  31. To think that our dinner last night was the last time
  32. Please spare her
  33. My thoughts are with two remarkable women
  34. If you are not careful, I won't even put your name in the hat
  35. He is called Mick Jagger
  36. Is nature a gigantic cat?
  37. Everything was perfect but the aim
  38. Its true beauty was that it worked
  39. The Sun’s Fawlty Statement
  40. If we loved one another less I could not have written this
  41. I love you—the way you always are
  42. There's only one hate, and that is the hate for fascism
  43. Rents, git doon tae the f*ckin shops fir ays then ya c*nt!
  44. I can’t write unless the typewriter is rattling
  45. Hoping this will meet with your approval
  46. The disease is almost universal, and the fight against it endless
  47. Part of this world, part of another
  48. I hope and I hope and I hope
  49. Life is like riding a bicycle
  50. There are two kinds of people in the world
  51. You are not as dumb as I thought
  52. Forget your personal tragedy
  53. Fortunately, I had my new radio
  54. Avenge my death
  55. Who needs it?
  56. O God for one more breath
  57. Two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it
  58. We have been the most patient of all people
  59. I would rather choose to be a plumber
  60. Happy 10th Anniversary Us
  61. Life isn’t a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown
  62. May the Force always be with you
  63. We are the gift
  64. What are your favourite letters?
  65. I have taken the liberty of rolling it up very tightly
  66. Dear “Dr.” Fields
  67. I am not going to stand for it
  68. Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated
  69. A library is many things
  70. I hope you will never see this letter
  71. Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one
  72. Walk proud as you are
  73. The proverbial “really good” science-fiction movie
  74. Ought women not to be abolished altogether?
  75. Yours Robotically
  76. My pink cactus is probably going to flower
  77. You shall have your cup back
  78. We all make mistakes
  79. Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window
  80. Articulate speech was transmitted intelligibly this afternoon
  81. I believe flyers should be permitted the same privileges as writers or actresses
  82. I have learnt to master myself
  83. Host extravagantly, love constantly, dance in comfortable shoes
  84. Wistfully yours
  85. You are the dearest daughter a man could have
  86. Wherever you go there are always people
  87. "Which of the two heaps is me, I wonder!"
  88. I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive
  89. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of s@*t
  90. Make no secret of low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely
  91. Nothing good gets away
  92. Though I do not enjoy writing “moral tales” for the young, I do it because it pays well
  93. I am to be executed
  94. Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis
  95. Mistakes are to be forgiven but stupidity is a crime
  96. I would like to offer you a two-week holiday, or longer, at our house
  97. Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy
  98. Into Eternity
  99. Saw it, loved it, ate it
  100. I wrote a book called THE GODFATHER
  101. All for love and honor
  102. Don't let anyone define who you are
  103. King, like all frauds your end is approaching
  104. I really am a loathsome little coward
  105. I hope you don’t feel too disappointed
  106. Ym raed Yssac
  107. It is only adults who ever feel threatened
  108. I only wash my feet once a month at school, which I confess is nasty
  109. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler

2022 164

  1. I have just been through one of the most extraordinary scenes imaginable
  2. Look for me in the trees. I will be there in the trees.
  3. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
  4. Christmas should be more than just external things, Tommy
  5. Another stupid party last night
  6. Sometimes I think that one of the reasons why we are fighting this war is because we want to save Christmas
  7. I talked with Santa yesterday and he is fine
  8. She was the beat of my heart for thirty years
  9. To hell with Christmas
  10. Your playing has got worse and worse
  11. Never think of remorse
  12. You can’t have a show with no audience
  13. I am speaking on behalf of 640 kids who all HATE you
  14. There are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do...
  15. I’m going to keep hustling and scuffling
  16. I can and will do more good if I were made a Federal Agent at Large
  17. Your birthday shall always be a Thanksgiving Day to me
  18. We feel doubly bereft
  19. By the time I was in the fifth grade, I knew I either wanted to be a nun or a movie star
  20. God's Law
  21. That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best
  22. It always seems to me that so few people live — they just seem to exist
  23. You will not have my hatred
  24. I’ve been a prisoner of war since December 19th, 1944...
  25. Take life seriously but none of the people in it
  26. I intend to spend the rest of my life wasting time
  27. I thought of you, as the flames shot up
  28. I long to surprise him with terrific disguises
  29. I shall always be with you
  30. Portentous, derisive, dull, dismal, damnable...
  31. MY MUSE MAY SPOOK! MAY BOLT! MAY ABANDON ME COMPLETELY!
  32. I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a nuclear war
  33. >SAY YES I NEED A JOB
  34. How to say no
  35. Every page fills me with a sick loathing
  36. May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?
  37. It was hard to give five sons all at once to the Navy
  38. I think one of the noblest projects for anyone in age is to find a shape in his life
  39. A spectacle, not of reverent mourning, but of intolerable ignorance
  40. I will NOT give up the belief in true love
  41. The Creative Urge
  42. Most letters from a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice
  43. I cannot bear to think of Lilibet, so young to bear such a burden
  44. Allow me to enlighten your readers...
  45. Art is an adventure into an unknown world
  46. Tears don't flow the same in space
  47. If we love, we grieve. That’s the deal.
  48. I do not wish to spend the rest of my life with my nose nailed to other people’s lavatories
  49. The longor you keep my Child from me the longor you will have to burn in hell
  50. I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world
  51. The Ax
  52. Torturing the Saxophone
  53. I refuse to be cheated out of my deathbed scene
  54. Thom seems to be a baby-shaped baby and I like him very much
  55. Your name is upon every tongue
  56. You puked on everything decent I ever owned
  57. Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief
  58. If you only had a Beatle haircut you would be the most beautiful man in the whole wide world
  59. I wonder what your true beliefs really are
  60. You always believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself
  61. This rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury
  62. Live like a mighty river
  63. What a hell of a bore to have to think of it even
  64. The differences are really negligible, apart from so far not falling over and breaking my leg
  65. The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off
  66. I don’t think lady-footballers will ever be able to ‘shoot’ goals
  67. So perfect is my love for you that I am, as it were, still, silent to my very soul
  68. Others believe a poet ought to go to the Moon
  69. If I ever get to be 91, I hope I’ll be as mean as you are
  70. I suppose a skonk had been there or else a hen In the shape of a skonk
  71. I shall always be near you
  72. I can be patient no longer
  73. Thou shalt dwell in houses thou hast not builded
  74. Don’t try to make yourself into somebody perfect
  75. You Babylonian scullion
  76. If you cut his side burns off we will just die!
  77. Just a static present, surrounded by a wall of anxiety
  78. THIS IS INSTEAD OF TELEPHONING BECAUSE I CANT LOOK YOU IN THE VOICE
  79. One must work and riot and throw oneself into the whirl
  80. I feel obliged to offer my services in the continuing struggle against the cursed Death Eaters
  81. Your work is an insult to your intelligence
  82. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence
  83. Do you take us for a gang of brainless lizards?
  84. GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY
  85. I think your work is quite incredible
  86. No dream can do justice to you
  87. How did you get invented?
  88. Dear Miss Absolutely Amazing Thing
  89. Nothing else matters
  90. You are the unexploded bomb to me
  91. The moths who had sampled your loin wares found that they could not digest them
  92. Thank you for the unexpected and unsolicited submission of your p*** portrait for our consideration
  93. Man remains the cruelest of all animals
  94. Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage...
  95. What great births you have witnessed!
  96. You were a brilliant light for me in a sometimes dark childhood
  97. Even my bones seem to cry for you
  98. Write to me when you get this, or before you do, only write and tell me all there is to tell me
  99. Please don’t let anyone Americanise it!
  100. Every writer has his own voice
  101. History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas
  102. I am clearly suspect and not believable
  103. I am afraid I’m much too important to write notes to people like you
  104. I wonder if you could do a drawing for me of an explosive slab of chocolate
  105. Cruella is magnificent
  106. Fashions in fear change, but do people?
  107. You must let me cry my cry for him
  108. Also...
  109. King Sequoia! Behold! Behold!
  110. We left the camp singing
  111. No son of mine is going to write stories LIKE THAT and live in MY HOUSE!
  112. Thank you for your letter. I shall try to do better.
  113. One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world
  114. It will be sunny one day
  115. The crabs of the world seem to fly to me
  116. Don't shake my tree
  117. I was intoxicated as to pass all bounds
  118. Diversity guarantees our cultural survival
  119. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor
  120. What did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?
  121. Like a tree in full bearing struck at the root
  122. Arkell v. Pressdram
  123. I would like to be paid like a plumber
  124. I love her more than anything in the world & always have
  125. How dare you
  126. These children had no homes—and nothing to eat. The cruel Nazis had bombed their cities.
  127. Always believe you can change the world
  128. May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLETOP?
  129. She doesn't answer the phone
  130. Do scientists pray?
  131. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks
  132. Your eager mother
  133. Letters Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  134. I decline to sit in a hot room and eat dead animals, even with you to amuse me.
  135. You’d better send me a letter. I don’t faint from letters.
  136. I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common
  137. In many ways we feel your pain
  138. For the sake of humanity
  139. I was knighted this morning...
  140. Very untruly yours
  141. When Death Comes
  142. Oh, God, how it hurts to write this
  143. Five accidents in two minutes
  144. 'Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be'
  145. Brown is as pretty as white or prettier
  146. 'He was a force for evil in the world'
  147. A literary charlatan of the extremest order
  148. 'I love you, I want you, I need you unbearably.'
  149. You know who Nina is, don’t you?
  150. To My Old Master
  151. My heart bursts with pain
  152. Always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.
  153. Her Majesty's Drop Scones
  154. Nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us
  155. Only unselfishly can you enjoy life to the fullest
  156. To: My Widow
  157. Make your own unique messes
  158. 'I saw a romantic structure wrought by human brains & hands that is to the burning eye of the sun a rival luminary'
  159. A gross failure of responsibility
  160. 'There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down'
  161. I hope one day to get to America
  162. My name is Sidney Poitier
  163. A string of unfortunate events
  164. Sorrow passes and we remain

2021 143

  1. Wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day
  2. The most beautiful work of all
  3. 'It is a princely gift and I shall wear it with arrogance'
  4. 'I thought I, and the many friends I encourage to stay at the Savoy, were considered GUESTS, not thieves!'
  5. 'You and I, and everyone else, were born with the same purpose'
  6. In the very assurance of sorrow’s fading there is more sorrow
  7. Seat 29E
  8. 'He is already your slave. This would make him mine.'
  9. IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER
  10. 'BANGO — I'm a star'
  11. 'I return your seasonal greetings card with contempt'
  12. I miss my biggest heart
  13. 'Your credibility, your integrity and your honor are things no company should be able to buy'
  14. I miss you so very much, Ryan
  15. Picture the scene
  16. 'Along with this letter comes a play'
  17. We were not found wanting
  18. An idiot of the 33rd degree
  19. 'An instrument of joy'
  20. Some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters
  21. 'There is no danger down here'
  22. Nothing good gets away
  23. 'Make your soul grow'
  24. 'I got your letter and realised at once that it was from you'
  25. I am pretty much disgusted with human behaviour most of the time
  26. The life and the work are equally important
  27. 'Let us blaze new trails'
  28. "It's the most wonderful life on earth"
  29. 'There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole'
  30. 'I never ever thought things could be so wonderful!'
  31. Don't feel bad that I'm gone
  32. Don't worry about growing up
  33. "I've got a hunch"
  34. Dear New York City
  35. Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents
  36. You would be so proud
  37. 'With my weak organs I am very fond of you'
  38. "Words, in case you don't know, are beautiful"
  39. Everything comes to an end
  40. A PERSONAL LETTER FROM STEVE MARTIN
  41. I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction’
  42. NEED SMALL BOAT
  43. Grief is non-negotiable
  44. Your cow must be a miracle
  45. All I know is asthma
  46. Forgive me forgive me forgive me
  47. Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life
  48. 'You may love your husband very much, but you should face the fact that he has no talent'
  49. I am so proud of you, our Soviet girl
  50. 'Once more I am a wretch'
  51. What did you say? I can't hear you…
  52. That’s right, I was beaten up at a charity recording. Your charity recording.
  53. And how are all of you?
  54. Yours in distress
  55. Each egg is a perfect thing
  56. Our differences unite us
  57. How could you go ahead of me?
  58. I’m exhausted all over but particularly the face
  59. This is my favorite memo ever
  60. She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound
  61. Shaking the shanks
  62. It could go two ways with us
  63. We feel doubly bereft
  64. The last mad Empire on earth
  65. Never get a bulldog
  66. Update 598
  67. Max Standby
  68. Mrs Roberts succeeded in getting under my skull
  69. I like words
  70. Please rescue me
  71. You have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before
  72. A pile of 5000 cats and kittens
  73. That multiform & encyclopedic bastard
  74. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it
  75. I will not be edited
  76. The Birth of the Football League
  77. It bangs one about until one is senseless
  78. Oh Christ, the cook is dead
  79. The point of being an artist is that you may live
  80. Most of all I shall remember the monarchs
  81. Don't forget us
  82. We all feel like that now and then
  83. We press you close and kiss you with all our strength
  84. (not one of your best)
  85. New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day
  86. I was wedged tight, up to my neck, in a huge tub of lard
  87. The canvas has an idiotic stare
  88. I find that lately more and more my fingers itch for a piano
  89. I can't fight any longer
  90. Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends
  91. We are dancing not on a volcano, but on the rotten seat of a latrine
  92. You must stop writing these little love letters to my husband
  93. Thank you, and I hope you choke
  94. Get there or die; this day or never.
  95. What have I done to deserve this?
  96. I am unable to accept your rejection at this time
  97. There isn’t any one “correct” way to score a film
  98. The loss of you lingers
  99. Prayers for rain
  100. The difference between us is very marked
  101. I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way
  102. Words are hard
  103. Why do we keep talking about these dumdums?
  104. Life is a phenomenon but not a novelty
  105. I used the Encyclopedia Britannica as a trouser-press
  106. ALL I HAVE IS A PILE OF PAPER COVERED WITH WRONG WORDS
  107. What is a minute?
  108. Isn’t it a good thing that all the bad stuff isn’t bunched up together in one person?
  109. You were in her thoughts
  110. Dirty bacon dirtier eggs and dirtiest Potatoes
  111. People simply empty out
  112. I simply can't write letters.
  113. Really, Mr. Walpole!
  114. I’m going to mope about you and then I’m going to have a bath and I’m going to mope about you in the bath.
  115. I loathe, I abhor the sea, & all ships which sail on it
  116. This letter is not a grumble
  117. I’m in a cursed mood and can’t bear the human face
  118. Dear Person
  119. Sweetheart come
  120. What is this thing called Zsa Zsa Gabor?
  121. Tomorrow we’ll be blown sky high
  122. EVERYONE has knocks
  123. I am only one, only one, only one.
  124. Letters of Note: Love
  125. P.S. I love you
  126. We smelt of not washing all over
  127. Columning is a deadly occupation
  128. Those golden words turn to dust
  129. Thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense!
  130. I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything
  131. I want more money I want more money I want more money...
  132. He asked only for equality
  133. I prefer to die with my head unbowed
  134. I stole your hat. I like your hat. I shall keep your hat.
  135. Try growing up
  136. One can't be angry when one looks at a Penguin
  137. STAR TREK PLANET VULCAN PROPER NAMES
  138. Thank you
  139. 'I must give myself the sack'
  140. 'It's snowing (big flakes) and I love you'
  141. Don't shake my tree
  142. I embrace you with all my heart
  143. Unlikely Letters of Note

2020 16

  1. The old year had to die
  2. When to stop
  3. Trumpetly yours
  4. The Matchbox
  5. Our Frank
  6. My dearest not too repellent you
  7. Do you remember two kinds of Christmases?
  8. I hate everybody including you
  9. "I am your Rock N’ Roll nightmare"
  10. I will be there in the trees
  11. Turkey, pudding, tips, waits, holly, good wishes, presents, sweets...
  12. Letters Live from the Archive
  13. This is quite true
  14. FROM ONE SOUL BROTHER TO ANOTHER
  15. Hughes Got Mail
  16. The Letturrection

2012 2

  1. Why Explore Space?
  2. I am very real

2011 1

  1. Immortal Beloved

2010 2

  1. The most beautiful death
  2. Hang on, my love, and grow big and strong

2009 3

  1. The word God is the product of human weakness
  2. P.S. This is my favorite memo ever
  3. Women do not do any of the creative work

Undated 1

  1. Diaries of note