Past event
Date:
14 May 2026
Letters Live, the one-of-a-kind celebration of the power of written correspondence, returned to The Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York City for another unique and unforgettable show.
This show supported the vital work of Choose Love, a movement of people who are putting love into action. Choose Love get emergency aid and life-changing support directly to displaced communities, fast.
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Dearest Beast
Noel Coward to Ian Fleming
God’s Law
An adoring fan (J. Kent Ashcraft) to Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Give women their names
Tabitha King to the media
In fact you will want to kill him
John Steinbeck to John Murphy
I do not believe in war
Joan Baez to IRS
I could curse for hours and hours
DH Lawrence to Edward Garnett
I demand answers!
Thatcher Jensen to Lady selling seashells
Yours in science
Harvey Rowe to Scott Williams
What is a minute?
Michelle’s mom to Mister Rogers
How beautiful!
Salvador Dalí to Federico Garcia Lorca
Don’t try to make yourself into somebody perfect
Clarice Lispector to her sister
What you inherited WAS the real thing
A disgruntled customer to Coca-Cola Company
Let us love each other
Katherine Mansfield to Dorothy Brett
Fortunately I had my new radio
Edna Johnson to Mr. Walker
It is like a physical wound
George Santayana to Iris Origo
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to an admirer
My brains are hanging out like a dog’s tongue
Dylan Thomas to Margaret Taylor
A word before I turn out the light
Rachel Carson to Dorothy Freeman
Dear Cretins
Robert Stokes to NTL
Also
Lady Elizabeth Compton to Lord William Compton
Things to worry about
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Scottie
Shadows run after me
Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell
I am so half an orange without you
Anne Sexton to her husband
P.S. This is my favorite memo ever
Matt Stone to MPAA
As civil as their breath would allow
Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen
I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world
Gene Roddenberry to a young Star Trek fan
Please forgive me for not protecting you
Allisa Charles-Findley to Botham Jean
What we have got to have in this world is a change of heart
WEB Du Bois to the Tribune
Black Friday
Another Love
Rest
Long Blue Light