Hacker News with Generative AI: Letters

Letter to Yi Ŭngt'ae (wikipedia.org)
In 1998, a 16th-century letter from a grieving pregnant widow to her deceased husband Yi Ŭngt'ae was discovered in Yi's tomb in Jeongsang-dong [ko], Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
History, Korea, Letters, Archaeology
4 points by redbell 11 days ago | 1 comments
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:
History, Exploration, British Library, Victorian Era, Letters
15 points by Caiero 131 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Celebrities, Music, Sports, Boxing, Letters
5 points by pseudolus 159 days ago | 0 comments
A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics (2003) [pdf] (ams.org)
Mathematics, History, Letters, PDF
88 points by gone35 214 days ago | 33 comments
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III (2023) (declassifieduk.org)
Politics, Royal Family, Julian Assange, Letters
16 points by miles 255 days ago | 0 comments
Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife (themarginalian.org)
Physics, Letters, History
10 points by Anon84 302 days ago | 1 comments
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics: André Weil's 1940 letter (quantamagazine.org)
Mathematics, History, Letters, Science
108 points by pseudolus 306 days ago | 23 comments
My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984) (lettersofnote.com)
Personal Stories, History, Letters
307 points by sohkamyung 325 days ago | 100 comments