High fashion, slow post
One of the features of postal correspondence is its slowness, probably a key contributor to its slow demise, though perhaps...
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...
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...
The merry mind
The actress Ingrid Bergman had a short relationship with the photographer Robert Capa. I love this quotation from a letter...
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 letter by boat and about a boat
This letter is magical. It is delivered by boat and announces the arrival of another boat at an assignation point.
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Close to your heart
I've heard of people keeping letters, including under their pillow, but never one permanently about your person. This letter from...
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...
A hospital for poets
The 18th century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin considers philosophy as a possible cure - or at least refuge - for...
Straight as an avenue of poplars
When was the last time you received - or wrote - an 18 page letter? I think I have managed...
Letters tolerably long
Gaskell has many Jane Austen touches in cheerily summing up lightweight characters. But inconsequent as the letter and the writer...
War and letters
Letters were a lifeline for people in war, whether fighting it or waiting for someone who was, or simply trying...
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