A mosaic of letters
Referring to the letters between Mary Delany and her beloved sister Anne, Molly Peacock aptly describes them as a paper...
A packet of air mail envelopes
You may not have noticed, but air mail envelopes and the corresponding lightweight letter paper are dying out. I am...
The innovation of envelopes
They’re so ubiquitous that it’s a surprise to learn envelopes were a mid-nineteenth century invention. Somewhere in Gaskell I remember...
The spirit of the letter
Luiz found this beautiful book at our favourite flea market in Geneva. I liked the cover image and title, which...
My kind of letter
Love receiving 'real' letters, and so was thrilled to find this beautiful envelope in the letter box, apparently made from...
No post and plenty of censorship
We don't know how lucky we are, having access to many forms of communication, electronic or postal, and being free...
Unintended consequences
A small restaurant in Maine sought to limit the number of reservations by requiring people to send theirs by...
As cold as …
A letter from Keats to his beloved Fanny, with a kindly injunction to wrap up warmly. I loved the solicitude...
Up hill and down dale
Gavin Maxwell chose to live in a remote house on a remote island in Scotland. Here he describes the extraordinary...
This is the world
Keats was one of the most life-loving people you could hope to meet, grasping with all his force every chance...
The pleasure of paper post
One of the greatest pleasures of Christmas, for me anyhow, is the sending and receiving of cards, one of the...
In mourning
In the 19th century, it was customary to use black-bordered paper and envelopes to inform someone of a death. Here...
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