Plus ça change…
There’s something reassuring in seeing that what appears an ‘issue’ today appeared equally so to people long ago. It puts...
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...
An awakened influence
Charlotte Bronte describes the spirit of writing when it flows. This happens to me occasionally, and I've noticed you can't...
In mourning
In the 19th century, it was customary to use black-bordered paper and envelopes to inform someone of a death. Here...
A thicket of thorns
A moment of despair for Keats, despite his resilient spirit and his desperate attempts to seize life and wring every...
A letter in the dark
A desperate and yet hopeful act, this. People throwing letters out of trains taking them to the gulag, trusting that...
A hospital for poets
The 18th century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin considers philosophy as a possible cure - or at least refuge - for...
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...
Keats on hand-writing
Keats' letters are treasures - he is every bit as fine a correspondent as he is a poet. Here he...
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...
A beautiful flowing hand
The American chef Julia Child describes how her husband approached letter-writing in an age when trans-Atlantic telephone calls were prohibitively...
Another long letter
Those were the days when conversations at a distance had to be committed to paper, and I like Bronte's preparation...
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