A letter from Harry to Bess

One of my favorite stops on the old Internet information superhighway is Letters of Note, which highlights generally awesome letters from or to famous figures. Tuesday, they posted a letter from new President Harry Truman to his wife Bess, in which he complained about the ghostly noises in the White House and, really, his new job. This paragraph, though, may well be the greatest paragraph ever written:

I sit here in this old house and work on foreign affairs, read reports, and work on speeches — all the while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway and even right in here in the study. The floors pop and the drapes move back and forth — I can just imagine old Andy and Teddy having an argument over Franklin. Or James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce deciding which was the more useless to the country. And when Millard Fillmore and Chester Arthur join in for place and show, the din is almost unbearable. But I still get some work done.

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