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Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by david-given »

kidsil wrote: post #10
will_brown wrote: post #3

Timely post. My Father (80) is in the process of publishing a book titled "Dear Mom: Letters Home From a Diplomatic Courier 50 Years Ago." Basically his Mother kept all the letters/postcards (~700) he sent home during his time traveling the World with the State Department. He recently began digitizing them to compile a book. It is almost a re-life Forest Gump story...a man in Moscow at the height of the cold war; bei…

man his writing is very addictive. I hope you'll post about his book once it's out!! With all the noise out there, I hope it gets some serious attention.

Yeah, he's a good writer; the ones I've read breathe with life. And he's got a nice turn of snark too, low-key but pointed. I'm British, I appreciate that!

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by pavel_lishin »

will_brown wrote: post #3

Timely post. My Father (80) is in the process of publishing a book titled "Dear Mom: Letters Home From a Diplomatic Courier 50 Years Ago." Basically his Mother kept all the letters/postcards (~700) he sent home during his time traveling the World with the State Department. He recently began digitizing them to compile a book. It is almost a re-life Forest Gump story...a man in Moscow at the height of the cold war; bei…

Is there anything we can subscribe to, so we can be notified when the book comes out?

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by will_brown »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #13
will_brown wrote: post #3

Timely post. My Father (80) is in the process of publishing a book titled "Dear Mom: Letters Home From a Diplomatic Courier 50 Years Ago." Basically his Mother kept all the letters/postcards (~700) he sent home during his time traveling the World with the State Department. He recently began digitizing them to compile a book. It is almost a re-life Forest Gump story...a man in Moscow at the height of the cold war; bei…

Is there anything we can subscribe to, so we can be notified when the book comes out?

Maybe I will set up a landing page with some sample letters and submit an HN post...but its nice to think others would have interest outside immediate friends/family.

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by swedishturnip »

will_brown wrote: post #14
pavel_lishin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything we can subscribe to, so we can be notified when the book comes out?

Maybe I will set up a landing page with some sample letters and submit an HN post...but its nice to think others would have interest outside immediate friends/family.

My father in law is in his eighties and served as a Swedish diplomat in Moscow in the 1960's (among other places). I know he too would love get a chance to read some of those letters.

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by da02 »

will_brown wrote: post #14
pavel_lishin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything we can subscribe to, so we can be notified when the book comes out?

Maybe I will set up a landing page with some sample letters and submit an HN post...but its nice to think others would have interest outside immediate friends/family.

Did he have any thoughts on the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by syedkarim »

david-given wrote: post #11
kidsil wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

man his writing is very addictive. I hope you'll post about his book once it's out!! With all the noise out there, I hope it gets some serious attention.

Yeah, he's a good writer; the ones I've read breathe with life. And he's got a nice turn of snark too, low-key but pointed. I'm British, I appreciate that!

Can you setup a Google form in the meantime, in case we don't come across your HN post with a landing page?

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by dmix »

will_brown wrote: post #14
pavel_lishin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything we can subscribe to, so we can be notified when the book comes out?

Maybe I will set up a landing page with some sample letters and submit an HN post...but its nice to think others would have interest outside immediate friends/family.

There are sites that let you set up an email capture box in a few minutes (such as mailchimp). Doesn't have to be a full landing page.

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by logicallee »

Conspicuously absent:

"you can scarcely imagine how expensive our text books are. Having tried to save some money through the purchase of a second-hand edition of Euclid's Elements, I am at risk of failing that class. The only change is that for this year's edition for some reason all the postulates have been renumbered, making it impossible for me to use the text in class."

Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages

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Post by josephpmay »

alexro wrote: post #2

It was easier for me - I just needed to ring my parents and collect cash at the post office. But I kept the tradition going - first telling mom and dad how I'm getting well along with studies! Great times

You had to call your parents and wait at the post office? How old fashioned! Today my parents can just look at my credit card bill online and decide if they want to pay for any expenses.
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