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Short story about a writing desk?
It's a romance, the main character buys a writing desk, finds a letter in a hidden drawer, responds to it on a fancy, though it's obviously been in there for years. Opens up the next drawer the next day, finds a reply, and this continues.
I can't for the life of me remember the author, or the title. Search results turn up Poe's story about the raven.
I believe it was a selection in a literature book for school.
"The Love Letter" by Jack Finney - (it was made into a movie)
Jake Belknap buys an inexpensive, legless wall desk from a nearby secondhand store. At home, he fastens it to a wall of his apartment where he intends to use it for occasional work he brings home, and to write his parents in Florida.
That evening he has a date with Roberta Haig, a woman he doesn't care if he sees again. When he comes home at two in the morning, he wonders if he'll ever meet a girl he desperately wants to be with, “the only way a man can get married.”
Unable to sleep, he examines his new desk. Opening and examining one of three little drawers, he finds a secret compartment. In it, he finds old, blank writing paper, envelopes, some ink, a pen and pen holder. One of the envelopes is sealed. He opens it and finds a handwritten letter dated May 14, 1882.
It is a love letter from a woman to a man she loves, telling him she is betrothed to, and must marry another. The letter's signed, “Miss Helen Elizabeth Worley, Brooklyn, New York.”
Jake feels compelled to answer the letter. Using the paper, pen and ink from the secret compartment, he writes telling her he's found her letter, and wishes he could help her; know her. Hehttp://homepage.mac.com/cssfan/jackfinney/sep590801016_detail.htm wishes her the best “in the time and place you are.”
Good news! You can read the entire story online:
12 Year Old Girl Arrested for Writing on Her Desk...