In my pocket, in my heart
From time to time I receive a long and handwritten letter from one of my brothers and I am long...
How to speak to an editor
Clearly, authors are simply too humble in approaching editors. This is how it should be done, straight to the point...
Red letter day
A red letter day is a holiday or a memorable day, something that might be marked on the calendar in...
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...
Letters unsent (II)
Clemency Burton-Hill describes the sight that greeted friends of the composer and pianist Erik Satie when, following his death in...
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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Write and gripe
I like letter writers who gripe about the responses (or lack of) from correspondents. Pliny is the arch whinger when...
My kind of letter
Love receiving 'real' letters, and so was thrilled to find this beautiful envelope in the letter box, apparently made from...
Plus ça change…
There’s something reassuring in seeing that what appears an ‘issue’ today appeared equally so to people long ago. It puts...
Letters tolerably long
Gaskell has many Jane Austen touches in cheerily summing up lightweight characters. But inconsequent as the letter and the writer...
A long lane
Keats had a humbling capacity to squeeze out moments of joy even while grappling with the illness which would kill...
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