Hacker News with Generative AI: Letters

Lady Baker and the Source of the Nile (harkness.substack.com)
Among the thousands and thousands of handwritten letters preserved in the British Library from the pen of the Victorian publisher Alexander Macmillan, one in particular piqued my interest: written to the heroic explorer of the sources of the Nile, Sir Samuel Baker, on 4 May 1866:
Kris Kristofferson writes a fan letter to Muhammad Ali (lettersofnote.com)
In 1977, Kris Kristofferson was flying high. In January, he won a Golden Globe for A Star Is Born, cementing his status as both a musical and cinematic star; months later, he met his personal hero, Muhammad Ali, a boxing legend he had admired since his own days as a keen amateur boxer at Oxford.
A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics (2003) [pdf] (ams.org)
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III (2023) (declassifieduk.org)
Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife (themarginalian.org)
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics: André Weil's 1940 letter (quantamagazine.org)
My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984) (lettersofnote.com)