Auld Lang Syne
“His Holiness Reciprocates”
When Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, wrote to a journalist.
“Sense and charity…”
In 1941, Thomas Merton surprisingly praised Time Magazine, and James Joyce.
“I am so much a target”
Abe Rosenthal in 1988: "The lie as an everyday weapon..."
An introduction
For two centuries, pen, ink, letters, telegrams and keystrokes defined correspondence.
Handwritten and typed letters are disappearing. The “Auld Lang Syne” column is an effort to gather letters, notes, telegrams and other items sent via mail, most culled from the archives of the magazine’s writers. These included personal and business correspondence and other tidbits that help reflect a time when nothing was instant, especially replies, and stamps mattered.