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This is an account of one archivist and her interest in communicating the experience of interacting with a collection of personal material. To this end she creates a reading of letters, diaries, and other primary source documents, specifically with an audience in mind. The article describes, in some detail, what steps one might go through to create this sort of outreach event, but also relates the...