Letters from the Archive

From the Marginalia


A monthly letter for readers who like archives, footnotes, and the slow building of unease.

What you'll receive


The first letter you'll receive — straight away, no waiting — is Chapter One of The Empress's Wake. The Mediterranean does not take long to grow strange.

After that, a letter arrives once a month. An archival curiosity. A photograph of marginalia. A passage about a scholar who wasn't being careful enough. Sometimes a recipe. Sometimes a footnote.

No announcements. No urgency. No exclamation points.

I have other footnotes. — C.H.