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They make for remarkable reading, although it is hard at times to discern truth from fantasy or manipulation.

Perhaps only half of the letters have yet been revealed, but they already form a huge trove of information.

Like many left-handed people, his penmanship is more print than cursive, making his letters particularly legible. Until they have been filed as an official exhibit in court, they can not be shown in their original form.

Here are most of those letters. All spellings are as they appear in the letters.

July 25, 2013

“For the first two weeks I was kept naked in a bare video recorded cell, and given only bread and jam to eat,” Millard writes in the first letter police recovered, which is addressed: “A letter to an Arabian Princess.”

“In conversation the presiding psychiatric, (whose name is redacted), actually admitted he was trying to see if he could make me suicidal as part of his pet project to figure me out. He called me an ‘enigma,’

“He never did get a chance to finish his experiment…

“The good doctor does not realize the service he actually did me. He applied such great pressure in his quest to crack my spirit — what he accomplished was hardenning me, like loose carbon turned to diamond,” he writes.

“Once I almost broke down. I had taken a Styrofoam cup and broken it into little granuels. I was pushing them about on the floor into different geometric designs. Almost immediately there was a bang at the door.

“‘What are you playing with?’ I replied that it was Styrofoam, that I wasn’t aloud to read, or draw, and so that was all I had available. The guard confiscated the Styrofoam granuels, and I was back to absolute deprevation.