For love of a letter
A letter carried, quite literally, close to the heart, despite the torment its presence provokes. Vasily Grossman's mother died in...
Waiting for the post
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals were written in the closing years of the 18th century and the opening years of the 19th,...
War and letters
Letters were a lifeline for people in war, whether fighting it or waiting for someone who was, or simply trying...
Letters kept, letters destroyed
Given the fragility of letters, it’s astounding how many have survived centuries and even millennia. Added to which it seems...
Key Performance Indicators … with a twist
'Here and there in the leafy glade of her letters a ripe berry of information gleams.'
When was the last...
In mourning
In the 19th century, it was customary to use black-bordered paper and envelopes to inform someone of a death. Here...
A packet of yellow love letters
What happened to all those love letter in a private drawer, sent and kept over centuries when this was the...
Keats’ correspondence
Here are Keats' own aspirations for his letter-writing. Whether he found interesting matter or just made matter interesting, his letters...
A bundle of letters
It is now so rare to receive a letter (not talking about bills or other officialese, but real letters) that...
Letters and the lapse of time
A moving comment on the effects of time and separation, and the hiatus of news caused by war. Firstly, the...
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