Tønsberg, 9 November
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps, all of them by post.
- You write me a note: who the letter is for, what you want them to know, and your own address.
- I write a draft and post it to you, if you’d like to see it first. Otherwise I go straight to the letter.
- I type the letter, sign it as you ask (your name, my name, or none), and post it.
- You pay when it has arrived.
Within Norway, most letters arrive within two weeks of your note.
Tønsberg, 9 November
ABOUT ME
I translated contracts, novels and instruction manuals for forty years. The instruction manuals were the hardest. Letters are easier: there is always one person at the other end.
Signe Aarvold
WHAT I WON’T WRITE
- Threats, or anything meant to frighten.
- Letters pretending to be in your handwriting.
- Letters meant to deceive someone.
- Legal letters. Go to a lawyer; I will happily write the thank-you afterwards.
QUESTIONS
Yes. I post it to you instead, and you sign and send it.
English, Norwegian and French.
A carbon copy, for you, if you want one. I keep nothing once the letter is posted, except the letters to future selves, until their day.
Tell me why, and I write it again. Twice is usual; three times is fine.
“You said I was not bad at mathematics, only frightened of it. It took me thirty years to see the difference.”
From a thank-you, to a mathematics teacher, thirty years late. Read the letter