To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

from JonArnold

The author uses his love of old letters as a starting point charting the history of letter writing. Appropriately his approach is to use letters as historical postcards from their time, windows through which the bigger sweep of history can be glimpsed.

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An exhaustive history of letters, letter writing, letter technology, and the history of postal systems, written in a casual, chatty style with frequent illustrations throughout. The sheer amount of information in the absence of a plotline made this exhausting reading for me, until it suddenly pic...

from madepercy

This is a quirky book about the lost art of letter writing. I started writing letters again a few years ago, writing to family and later friends. My family and I still correspond but no friends ever returned a letter. One gentlemen did email me, saying he was pleasantly surprised to receive a han...

from jon1lambert

Really enjoyable canter through the history of letter writing, taking us up to the digital era, Postman Pat delivering parcels and not letters to reflect current trends and so much more

from jon1lambert

Really enjoyable canter through the history of letter writing, taking us up to the digital era, Postman Pat delivering parcels and not letters to reflect current trends and so much more