A continuing correspondence between literature and the written hand.

Each month, Letters from the Archive begins with an essay and an invitation to read, copy, reflect, and respond by hand.

Each Archive remains open for correspondence. You may respond to the current issue or return to any earlier Archive.

Letters from the Archive

Frankenstein 1818 title page, portrait of Mary Shelley, and Frankenstein manuscript for Archive #0002
Archive #0002 — Frankenstein and the Responsibility of Creation
More than two centuries after Mary Shelley imagined a young man standing before the living consequence of his own ambition, Frankenstein still asks an unsettling question: what do we owe... Read more...
Antique writing desk with books, handwritten pages, quill and globe illustrating Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Gothic literature
Archive #0001 Why Dracula Refuses to Die
Why does Dracula continue to haunt our imagination more than a century after its publication? In the inaugural edition of Letters from the Archive, we explore the enduring legacy of... Read more...