The Letters Page
Dear Bookish Friends, I hope this letter finds you well. Have you read anything good lately? I have and I …
Category Archives: Letters
To the Letter
To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by Simon Garfield is not a stellar book …
Letters as Genre
There was a review recently on the Publisher’s Weekly blog on a couple of new collections of letters. I love …
Floating Worlds
When a really nice person from Pomegranate sent me an email to inquire if I would be interested in reviewing …
The Art of Handwriting
Get out some paper and dust off your pen because the Smithsonian’s The Art of Handwriting online exhibit (via Like …
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne
What delightful reading are The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54. Dorothy Osborne was born in …
Collaborating With the Dead
To love is so startling it leaves… ” one unsure of how to proceed” replied Oliver, “I want some more”. …
Between Gardens
What a lovely book Between Gardens: Observations on Gardening, Friendship, and disability by Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field turned …
Letters of Horace Walpole
Back when I was an undergrad living in student housing, I knew a girl of the name Walpole who once …
Address Unknown
Not long ago friend Cath in the Netherlands emailed me an eleven page PDF called Address Unknown. It consists of …
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