Editor's Letter: The Last Monthly Issue
Richard E. Spoon's final letter to readers, written six months before his death.
Dear Reader,
This is the last monthly issue of Pulse Chronicles. We will continue, as a quarterly, for as long as we are able. The Edgewood Avenue offices will close in May. The archive — forty-one volumes, a great many filing cabinets — will move to a warehouse in Castleberry Hill where it will, I am promised, be safe.
It has been the honor of my life to put this magazine out, every week and then every month and then, for a stretch in the middle, what felt like every day. The masthead has carried more than three hundred names since 1978. I have loved most of them.
Whatever comes next for this title, it will not be the same. I hope it will be good.
— R.E.S.
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