I'll organize this better someday, probably, but here's a rough start:

My scan of the letter itself, of the envelope it came in, the photos and the newspaper (some of it; the David Bowie parts).

Letters of Note blog finds and links it (December 2, 2009) starting all the rest of the attention.

I found out the letter had been put on that blog from getting e-mail from Dean Murray at Rex Features, in London, asking for a photo of me when I was 14, and for permission to use the scan.

I mailed the packet to Holly, who was staying in the U.K. with James and Julie Daniel and their young son Adam. James and Holly made an appointment to take the packet to Dean Murray, so the contents could be professionally photographed and scanned for posterity. (My $80 scanner is not all that great, though my images are linked elsewhere on this page.)

Dean Murray wrote later:

It was a pleasure meeting your daughter Holly, she was great and livened up what is actually a quiet office here. It's amazing how much she looks like you when you were 14! :)

That first photo is the very summer I got the David Bowie letter, after my cousin Debbie (at the right) gave the promo albums she didn't want to our cousin Nada (third in the photo) who gave her rejects to me. The one who doesn't look like my cousin (Max Rasamimanana, of Madagascar) had nothing to do with it. He was working at Ghost Ranch when we went to 4-H camp and we invited him home. He was a student at Wooster, working at Ghost Ranch for the summer.

January 6, 2010, at the Santa Fe Unschooling Symposium, I showed Carl and Kathryn Fettroll my whole packet, which Holly had just brought back from England, and which I was going to use for Show and Tell on Friday night. Carl noted, from the letter, that Friday would be David Bowie's birthday.

December 8, very early morning, when I needed to make breakfast for symposium attendees, I got an e-mail from Dean Murray with links to three online article (which I looked at briefly) and scans of two newspaper articles (which I looked at later that day).