Paying for permanence

This page says what the archive costs, what has come in, and how long it can run on what it has. The numbers are updated monthly and are not rounded in the archive's favour.

This site carries no advertising and never will — no display units, no sponsors, no affiliate links, no tracking. The letters are not for sale, and access to them never will be. That is a fixed constraint, not a policy: if funding ever fails, the archive falls back to a free, read-only static mirror rather than take a single ad.

What it costs, and what came in

This archive costs $11/month to run. In September 2026, $0 came in, and $0 is on hand.

The endowment goal

Ten prepaid years of hosting and domain: $0 of $156. When this bar fills, it goes away — the archive's survival stops depending on anyone's attention.

Ways to help

Leave a tip — any amount, one time. It goes to hosting, the domain, and the physical deposits, and nowhere else.

Become a founding archivist — a one-time contribution that lists your name permanently on the supporters page and in every corpus export. Your name goes into the record that outlives the site.

The most valuable support is free: write a letter, and tell someone else the archive exists.