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Letters from the Road: Work, Money, Health on a Single Sheet

Letters from the Road: Work, Money, Health on a Single Sheet

Exhibition

Letters from the Road: Work, Money, Health on a Single Sheet

Ivan Franko Literary Memorial Museum29 July 2026 — 11 March 2027Літературно-меморіальний музей Івана Франка

Correspondence from journeys to congresses and lectures. Everything fits on one sheet, because paper and time were short and all of it had to be said.

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A Private Letter as a Working Document

In these sheets the line between correspondence and business papers does not exist.

Money Gets Fewer Words Than Anything Else

A paragraph about a fee is usually one or two sentences.

The Letters Are Arranged by Route, Not by Date

Chronology breaks the journeys apart; geography puts them back together.

A Letter Finished in the Margins of a Railway Timetable

The paper ran out, and the ending was written wherever there was space.

Letters from the Road: Everything on a Single Sheet

Work, money, health and children in one letter, because paper was short.

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