COR/2021/097
Letter After an Unexplained Absence
- Kind:
- Correspondence
- Date:
- 9 April 2021
- Origin:
- Standing model letter. One is sent; a second is not.
- Access:
- Open as a model. Sent letters are not filed.
The one letter written to somebody who has stopped coming. It asks for nothing and says so.
The Continuance Institute · The North House · Penobscot County · Maine
Dear —,
The Thursday kitchen has been covered since the middle of March and is now held by Ann Ferrers, so there is nothing outstanding and nothing needed from you.
I am writing once. You will not hear from us again and nobody will call. If you would like to come back at any point, this year or in twenty years, you would simply come; there is nothing to arrange and nobody will ask where you have been.
If you would rather your entry were taken off the public roll, write one line and it will be done that week.
With good wishes,
M. Evensen
Steward
[Entered beside:] Sent 9 April 2021. No reply sought. Standing entered as separation. — rota book, p. 41
The model was revised in 2021 to remove the sentence we hope to see you soon, which a former member had written to say made a letter that promised nothing feel like an expectation.
Catalogued at the North House · reproduction permitted for study · redactions are not itemised