The Lettermate
Yes, you could just put a piece of lined paper in the envelope to use as a guide, but why would you, when you can use a nifty tool instead?
Handwritten letters, 25¢ each
The Two Quarters Collective ’s “Letter Box Project” uses a repurposed vending machine to dispense handwritten letters in English, Basque, Farsi, and Spanish.
“English professors have many wiles”
Willa Cather: “I take for granted that a person who writes a discriminating and intelligent letter is the sort of person who would not use any portion of my letter for publicity of any kind.”
James Allen, letter writer
if you don’t like the current stuck-in-a-cave story, well, it will end soon.
Jean Jarrett, letter writer
Beverly Cleary characters writing to their pen pals.
From a Van Gogh letter
He looks at the world and sees paintings.
From a van Gogh letter
The religious fervor and sermonizing of van Gogh’s early letters is occasionally interrupted by a passage of perfect description.
From a van Gogh letter
Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.
The Lettermate
For anyone who has trouble writing in a straight line.
Letters and vultures
From Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly .
David Bowie (1947–2016)
From David Bowie’s reply to his first piece of fan mail from the United States.
“[A] slow proposition on the market”
Willa Cather: “I’m not a bit sore about being a slow proposition on the market; but I have to cut my plans according to my cloth in order to avoid worrying.”
Letter, stranger
“How she knows me, I can’t imagine.”
Word of the Day: epistling
“Heere’s a packet of Epistling, as bigge as a Packe of Woollen cloth.”
National Send a Handwritten Letter Day (?)
“In 2015 there’s something decidedly artificial about keeping in touch by letter. I don’t mind.”
Letter-writing: on the wane?
A question from 1909: “Is letter writing, in the artistic sense, a lost accomplishment?”
“A formal, considered form of correspondence”
Shaun Usher on what we lose by not writing letters.
Salinger letter for sale
A 1966 letter from Bermuda.
From a letter to David Rakoff
“Here is the simplest lesson you taught me: Don’t trade up.”
Trudel’s Truth
Trudel’s Truth publishes the letters Trudel Adler began writing to her family in Germany after she came to the United States in 1934.
My name is [your name here].
“My name is” does sound childlike, doesn’t it?
Mysterious apologies
Mysterious written apologies are baffling the town of Whitstable, Kent.
Letters
Letters from the world of Gracious Living, From Alfred Stuart Myers’s Letters for All Occasions (1952).
Letter art
“From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple choice form letters, what do a letter’s illustrations reveal?”
Young-adult letters
A Boston Globe article on young-adult letter-writers.
John Lennon’s letters
The Los Angeles Times reports that in 2012 Little, Brown will publish a book of John Lennon’s letters, edited by Beatles biographer Hunter Davies.
“Jail mail”
From the New York Times: in prison, “the art of the pen-to-paper letter to the editor is thriving.”
The Murry Wilson letter
From an eight-page letter to Brian Wilson
Sam FInk's letters
Letters from a 93-year-old illustrator
Thanksgiving night
A letter, found in a book