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Years ago I kept a personal site at eloign.com (which is now directed here). I published some letters I had written there, and this was my introduction:

After some self-reflection, it has occured to me the majority of my heartfelt writing has been in the form of letters. I would love to hear from people who read these letters. I have put so few in the public eye, but those I have, have been well received.

Letter to an Understudy I - written and given to an employee several years ago.

The Football Letter - this letter is included in Sapphic Epistolary (in the Research section of this site), but here is the rest of the story surrounding it. I wrote this story some time in 1983 - a few weeks after the letter. The story around my English teacher's response is interesting, but for a different forum. The short of that tale is another teacher requested to use this story in a section of one of her classes on the form of letter writing as literature. Not bad for a 16 year old.

Who Thrives & Who Does Not - an e-mail written to another Internet business owner.