Sunday, June 16, 2024

Margaret

 Dear Valeria,


Peace!

The Right Honourable Margaret Bondfield (Justice of the Peace)

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Bessie

Dear Valeria,

Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook it was there. (Maru 1971, p. 5.)

Love and peace,

Bessie Head

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Wilma

 Dear Valeria,

“Europeans brought with them the view that men were the absolute head of households, and women were to be submissive to them. It was then that the role of women in Cherokee society began to decline. One of the new values Europeans brought to the Cherokees was a lack of balance and harmony between men and women. It was what we today call sexism. This was not a Cherokee concept. Sexism was borrowed from Europeans.”

Regards,

Wilma Mankiller

Friday, March 15, 2024

María

Querida Valeria,



¡Hasta la Republica! ¡Hasta la Libertad!

María Pacheco

Friday, March 1, 2024

Trevor

 Dear Valeria,

Peace sister,

Trevor Carter (co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival)

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Marjory

 Dear Valeria,

By shedding tears of blood we praise King T'hamara,
Whose praises I, not ill-chosen, have told forth.
For ink I have used a lake of jet, and for pen a pliant crystal.
Whoever hears, a jagged spear will pierce his heart!

The Knight in the Panther’s Skin: Stanza 4
Translated by Marjory Scott Wardrop

Love,

Marjory Scott Wardrop


Saturday, September 30, 2023

Eunice

Dear Valeria,

Photograph of pages 382 and 393 of a journal describing a scientific experiment.

By Eunice Newton Foote (1856). "Circumstances affecting the heat of the Sun’s rays": Art. XXXI, The American Journal of Science and Arts, 2:XXII/no. LXVI, November 1856, p. 382-383

Monday, September 25, 2023

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Rabbie

Dear Valeria,

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a pannic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd'ring pattle!

Yours,

Robert Burns

Friday, July 9, 2021

Narihira


Dear Valeria,

Even the almighty
gods of old
never knew
such beauty:
on the river Tatsuta
in autumn sunlight
a brocade—
reds flowing above
blue water below.

Go in peace,

Ariwara no Narihira

Friday, May 14, 2021

B.B.

 Dear Valeria,

The sound that you’re listening to is from my guitar
That’s named Lucille. I’m very crazy about Lucille.
Lucille took me from the plantation. Oh you might say,
Brought me fame.
I don’t think I could just talk enough about Lucille.
Sometime when I’m blue seem like Lucille try to help
me call my name.

B.B. “King of the Blues” King

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Bella

Dear Valeria,

I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am—and this ought to be made very clear—I am a very serious woman.

Love,

 “Battling” Bella Savitzky Abzug

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Harry

Dear Valeria,

I’m perfect!




Sincerely Yours,

Harry “Little Tich” Relph

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Marie

Dear Valeria,

Sit down…



Let me tell you a story.

Marie Hassenpflug

Friday, September 25, 2020

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Marija

Dear Valeria,


Remember to always punch nazis.

Yours in power,

Marija Bursać

Thursday, September 10, 2020