[New-Poetry] sent by (letters)

[Chris Lott]

On 6/5/07, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
> 'Laundry letters' worth millions
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/04/britain.letters.reut/
> index.html
>
> LONDON, England (Reuters) -- One of the  word's greatest collections
> of historical letters, including a note written  by Napoleon to his
> lover Josephine, has been found in a filing cabinet tucked  away in a
> Swiss laundry room.
>
> The treasure trove of almost 1,000  documents, collected over 30 years
> by a wealthy Austrian banker, includes  letters written by Winston
> Churchill, Peter the Great, Mahatma Gandhi,  Alexander Pushkin, John
> Donne and Queen Elizabeth I.

So these will likely go from being forgotten in the back of a filing
cabinet to being inaccessible to anyone except the acquaintances of
the various, but mostly rich, collectors who buy them for their
private collections. All that hidden art. It's no different than
hearing that some painting I will never get to see was sold for cazy
money by one patron of the arts to another who will put it someplace I
will continue to be unable to see it.

c