Anne here, and my blog today is more in the nature of a gentle rant. I read a lot, and as chance would have it, in the last few weeks I've read novel after novel where the heroine pulls out a sheet of foolscap and dashes off a quick note — not a letter, a note, the sort that you'd send a friend who lives around the corner or a few streets away, sent by hand via a footman or some lackey. 
Sadly, it grates on me every time. Yes, a small thing, I know. As I said, this is a gentle rant. Or possibly a picky one. But I am a stationery addict, so please forgive me.
The thing is, foolscap is a big sheet of paper. It's probably fine if you want to write a long letter, but it's not the size you'd use to dash off a note — especially if you are a lady with pretensions to elegance, and what Regency heroine is not?
A sheet of the smaller kind of foolscap (there are several types) is roughly similar in size to a sheet of US legal paper — 8½ inches wide by 13½ inches long. (US legal is ½ an inch longer.) To send a short note to a friend or acquaintance on a sheet of foolscap would be horridly inelegant.
Now perhaps the note paper was bought from the stationer in foolscap size, but I'm not so sure. For the most part these foolscap-wielding heroines are well-heeled ladies, whose every need is catered to. I'm betting when ladies bought their elegant notepaper from their elegant stationery supplier it was already cut to a variety of convenient sizes, neatly trimmed and pre-folded for convenience, if not by the stationer, then by some house servant. 
A fine lady's notepaper paper would be of the best quality, manufactured specifically as quality writing paper, sized and hot pressed (pressed between two hot rollers) to give a fine, smooth surface. Some would be watermarked, some produced specially for individuals might be printed with the family crest, or some other design, mourning notepaper would be black-edged, the width of the black border often hinting at the closeness of their relationship to the deceased person and how recent and great the loss.
The table below shows the variety and size of notepapers, though it's worthwhile to note that not all Regency-era paper manufacturers produced standardized products. But notepaper would most likely be much like the size of notepaper today, say a quarto sheet folder in half, or even half a quarto sheet folded in half. Or smaller. Note the sizes — they are in inches. Info from this site.
"Cutting and folding quarto-post gives octavo-post, also called notepaper. Cutting and folding octavo-post gives 16mo-post or small note. This process was carried on all the way down to 64mo post, lilliputian note-paper." Source.
Letters and notes are different. For a letter that was to travel via the post (instead of carried by footman or lackey) you might use foolscap size, or quarto (which is similar to A4 or American letter size), depending on how much was to go into the letter. And since the post charged per sheet —unless you got a lord or Member of Parliament to frank it for you) one sheet was it, and if you wrote a long letter it was not just closely written, but crossed and sometimes recrossed.
Here's an example of a crossed letter, from the Shanahan's excellent site, used with permission. And if you want to read about the background to this particular letter go here. They also have a marvellous collection of letters from British history — here
I could bang on for ages about Regency-era letters and notes, but I won't . . .pause for reader to heave sigh of relief.
But if you're interested, there is an excellent post here on the anatomy of a regency letter, there's another site that delves into Jane Austen's letters in some technical detail, this Jane Austen site has several excellent posts, there's more about regency letters here, and if you want to see how to fold a letter regency style, go here.
And I will just point out, concluding my gentle rant, that none of the ladies in the paintings above is wrestling with a large sheet of foolscap. Just sayin'. . . 
PostScript: And why was it called foolscap? It was named after the fool or jester's cap and bells watermark used on paper of this size from the fifteenth century onwards. According to Wikipedia, the earliest example of such paper that is firmly dated was made in Germany in 1479.
So what about you — are you a stationery addict? Are you a letter writer? (I wrote a post a while back on the gentle art of letter writing.) Are there small things in historical novels that jar on you?
I love pretty stationery. One of my goals this year is actually to write a few more letters or cards to friends just because. I love getting proper mail (I have a theory that we all get addicted to online shopping because it means proper mail now that not many people send letters and cards. So yes to trying to write more (and legibly). Now, if only I had a lord to frank them for me 😀
I love pretty stationery. One of my goals this year is actually to write a few more letters or cards to friends just because. I love getting proper mail (I have a theory that we all get addicted to online shopping because it means proper mail now that not many people send letters and cards. So yes to trying to write more (and legibly). Now, if only I had a lord to frank them for me 😀
I love pretty stationery. One of my goals this year is actually to write a few more letters or cards to friends just because. I love getting proper mail (I have a theory that we all get addicted to online shopping because it means proper mail now that not many people send letters and cards. So yes to trying to write more (and legibly). Now, if only I had a lord to frank them for me 😀
I love pretty stationery. One of my goals this year is actually to write a few more letters or cards to friends just because. I love getting proper mail (I have a theory that we all get addicted to online shopping because it means proper mail now that not many people send letters and cards. So yes to trying to write more (and legibly). Now, if only I had a lord to frank them for me 😀
I love pretty stationery. One of my goals this year is actually to write a few more letters or cards to friends just because. I love getting proper mail (I have a theory that we all get addicted to online shopping because it means proper mail now that not many people send letters and cards. So yes to trying to write more (and legibly). Now, if only I had a lord to frank them for me 😀
That’s a lovely idea, Mel. I think you’re right about people enjoying on-line shopping because they get real mail. I love writing and receiving letters, but these days I tend to only write them when I’m away. And even then, email is easier.
That’s a lovely idea, Mel. I think you’re right about people enjoying on-line shopping because they get real mail. I love writing and receiving letters, but these days I tend to only write them when I’m away. And even then, email is easier.
That’s a lovely idea, Mel. I think you’re right about people enjoying on-line shopping because they get real mail. I love writing and receiving letters, but these days I tend to only write them when I’m away. And even then, email is easier.
That’s a lovely idea, Mel. I think you’re right about people enjoying on-line shopping because they get real mail. I love writing and receiving letters, but these days I tend to only write them when I’m away. And even then, email is easier.
That’s a lovely idea, Mel. I think you’re right about people enjoying on-line shopping because they get real mail. I love writing and receiving letters, but these days I tend to only write them when I’m away. And even then, email is easier.
I wrote quite a few letters when I was young. Now days its just cards and maybe a short note. I’m not a fan of email, although I use it.
Letter writing took time. You gave a lot of thought to what you wanted to say and how to say it. You wanted to be sure that the person receiving the letter didn’t misinterpret what you were trying to convey. No such thought goes into most emails or (God forbid) texts.
I found the crossed letter interesting. I remember when my grandmother wrote to us she would use both sides of the paper and sometimes also write in the margins. I don’t know if the cost of stationary was too dear or if she just didn’t want to break out a new piece of paper.
Interesting post!
I wrote quite a few letters when I was young. Now days its just cards and maybe a short note. I’m not a fan of email, although I use it.
Letter writing took time. You gave a lot of thought to what you wanted to say and how to say it. You wanted to be sure that the person receiving the letter didn’t misinterpret what you were trying to convey. No such thought goes into most emails or (God forbid) texts.
I found the crossed letter interesting. I remember when my grandmother wrote to us she would use both sides of the paper and sometimes also write in the margins. I don’t know if the cost of stationary was too dear or if she just didn’t want to break out a new piece of paper.
Interesting post!
I wrote quite a few letters when I was young. Now days its just cards and maybe a short note. I’m not a fan of email, although I use it.
Letter writing took time. You gave a lot of thought to what you wanted to say and how to say it. You wanted to be sure that the person receiving the letter didn’t misinterpret what you were trying to convey. No such thought goes into most emails or (God forbid) texts.
I found the crossed letter interesting. I remember when my grandmother wrote to us she would use both sides of the paper and sometimes also write in the margins. I don’t know if the cost of stationary was too dear or if she just didn’t want to break out a new piece of paper.
Interesting post!
I wrote quite a few letters when I was young. Now days its just cards and maybe a short note. I’m not a fan of email, although I use it.
Letter writing took time. You gave a lot of thought to what you wanted to say and how to say it. You wanted to be sure that the person receiving the letter didn’t misinterpret what you were trying to convey. No such thought goes into most emails or (God forbid) texts.
I found the crossed letter interesting. I remember when my grandmother wrote to us she would use both sides of the paper and sometimes also write in the margins. I don’t know if the cost of stationary was too dear or if she just didn’t want to break out a new piece of paper.
Interesting post!
I wrote quite a few letters when I was young. Now days its just cards and maybe a short note. I’m not a fan of email, although I use it.
Letter writing took time. You gave a lot of thought to what you wanted to say and how to say it. You wanted to be sure that the person receiving the letter didn’t misinterpret what you were trying to convey. No such thought goes into most emails or (God forbid) texts.
I found the crossed letter interesting. I remember when my grandmother wrote to us she would use both sides of the paper and sometimes also write in the margins. I don’t know if the cost of stationary was too dear or if she just didn’t want to break out a new piece of paper.
Interesting post!
When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes (I am the nitpicky-est person in the world when it comes to ballet-themed books!).
I’m one of the last few postcard writers in existence.
However, I’m off to Europe again in a few weeks, and I don’t think I’ll be sending any this time.
After a month in Spain and a few dozen postcards posted in a number of cities, NONE of them arrived (that was 2.5 years ago). Only half the cards I sent after a month in Italy last year ever turned up.
I think the post was more reliable in the Regency!
I do become very picky when US instead of UK terms are used in books set in Britain. It distracts me so much.
When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes (I am the nitpicky-est person in the world when it comes to ballet-themed books!).
I’m one of the last few postcard writers in existence.
However, I’m off to Europe again in a few weeks, and I don’t think I’ll be sending any this time.
After a month in Spain and a few dozen postcards posted in a number of cities, NONE of them arrived (that was 2.5 years ago). Only half the cards I sent after a month in Italy last year ever turned up.
I think the post was more reliable in the Regency!
I do become very picky when US instead of UK terms are used in books set in Britain. It distracts me so much.
When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes (I am the nitpicky-est person in the world when it comes to ballet-themed books!).
I’m one of the last few postcard writers in existence.
However, I’m off to Europe again in a few weeks, and I don’t think I’ll be sending any this time.
After a month in Spain and a few dozen postcards posted in a number of cities, NONE of them arrived (that was 2.5 years ago). Only half the cards I sent after a month in Italy last year ever turned up.
I think the post was more reliable in the Regency!
I do become very picky when US instead of UK terms are used in books set in Britain. It distracts me so much.
When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes (I am the nitpicky-est person in the world when it comes to ballet-themed books!).
I’m one of the last few postcard writers in existence.
However, I’m off to Europe again in a few weeks, and I don’t think I’ll be sending any this time.
After a month in Spain and a few dozen postcards posted in a number of cities, NONE of them arrived (that was 2.5 years ago). Only half the cards I sent after a month in Italy last year ever turned up.
I think the post was more reliable in the Regency!
I do become very picky when US instead of UK terms are used in books set in Britain. It distracts me so much.
When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes (I am the nitpicky-est person in the world when it comes to ballet-themed books!).
I’m one of the last few postcard writers in existence.
However, I’m off to Europe again in a few weeks, and I don’t think I’ll be sending any this time.
After a month in Spain and a few dozen postcards posted in a number of cities, NONE of them arrived (that was 2.5 years ago). Only half the cards I sent after a month in Italy last year ever turned up.
I think the post was more reliable in the Regency!
I do become very picky when US instead of UK terms are used in books set in Britain. It distracts me so much.
I’ve read this before, that paper was such a premium that the letters went sideways over the first and back.
I’ve read this before, that paper was such a premium that the letters went sideways over the first and back.
I’ve read this before, that paper was such a premium that the letters went sideways over the first and back.
I’ve read this before, that paper was such a premium that the letters went sideways over the first and back.
I’ve read this before, that paper was such a premium that the letters went sideways over the first and back.
I have never been much of a letter writer, but as a child and a young woman I did have stationery, and I always appreciated it. I still have one final box from the pre-computer dark ages.
Unlike many people, I adore email. My are as carefully edited as my snail mail was (I used to write drafts and then copy). But with spellcheck (but NO autocorrect!) my letters are now better spelled than they ever were with paper based communications. And email, brings much quicker response. More like a conversation, but with a “paper” trail, so that you can revisit the conversation at a later time.
Emails are only sloppy because people today have chosen to be sloppy. If you compose an email as carefully as you used to compose letters, you have written a letter using the latest technology.
I have never been much of a letter writer, but as a child and a young woman I did have stationery, and I always appreciated it. I still have one final box from the pre-computer dark ages.
Unlike many people, I adore email. My are as carefully edited as my snail mail was (I used to write drafts and then copy). But with spellcheck (but NO autocorrect!) my letters are now better spelled than they ever were with paper based communications. And email, brings much quicker response. More like a conversation, but with a “paper” trail, so that you can revisit the conversation at a later time.
Emails are only sloppy because people today have chosen to be sloppy. If you compose an email as carefully as you used to compose letters, you have written a letter using the latest technology.
I have never been much of a letter writer, but as a child and a young woman I did have stationery, and I always appreciated it. I still have one final box from the pre-computer dark ages.
Unlike many people, I adore email. My are as carefully edited as my snail mail was (I used to write drafts and then copy). But with spellcheck (but NO autocorrect!) my letters are now better spelled than they ever were with paper based communications. And email, brings much quicker response. More like a conversation, but with a “paper” trail, so that you can revisit the conversation at a later time.
Emails are only sloppy because people today have chosen to be sloppy. If you compose an email as carefully as you used to compose letters, you have written a letter using the latest technology.
I have never been much of a letter writer, but as a child and a young woman I did have stationery, and I always appreciated it. I still have one final box from the pre-computer dark ages.
Unlike many people, I adore email. My are as carefully edited as my snail mail was (I used to write drafts and then copy). But with spellcheck (but NO autocorrect!) my letters are now better spelled than they ever were with paper based communications. And email, brings much quicker response. More like a conversation, but with a “paper” trail, so that you can revisit the conversation at a later time.
Emails are only sloppy because people today have chosen to be sloppy. If you compose an email as carefully as you used to compose letters, you have written a letter using the latest technology.
I have never been much of a letter writer, but as a child and a young woman I did have stationery, and I always appreciated it. I still have one final box from the pre-computer dark ages.
Unlike many people, I adore email. My are as carefully edited as my snail mail was (I used to write drafts and then copy). But with spellcheck (but NO autocorrect!) my letters are now better spelled than they ever were with paper based communications. And email, brings much quicker response. More like a conversation, but with a “paper” trail, so that you can revisit the conversation at a later time.
Emails are only sloppy because people today have chosen to be sloppy. If you compose an email as carefully as you used to compose letters, you have written a letter using the latest technology.
Mel Scott said one of her goals is to write more “Just Because” cards/letters. Which just so happens to be one of my goals this year.
It is an easy way to brighten someone’s week and it makes you feel good while doing it.
I like emails and I like notes/letters. Yes, I am addicted to cute/fun/neat stationary. I have a whole drawer full of it. And I love buying stamps that have fun themes and matching them to the person I am sending the card to.
My grandmother collected stamps and I used to go buy the new ones and we’d send her mail using them so they would be cancelled properly. It became so ingrained in me that I can’t use anything but commerative stamps. No ordinary flags for me….
Depends on the time of day whether my emails make sense and have good grammar. Also whether I am having headache issues. I don’t even realize how badly everything is written until the headache issues clear up and I go “OH MY GOSH”. Which is why I try never to write anything when I am under the weather.
Fun post. Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.
Mel Scott said one of her goals is to write more “Just Because” cards/letters. Which just so happens to be one of my goals this year.
It is an easy way to brighten someone’s week and it makes you feel good while doing it.
I like emails and I like notes/letters. Yes, I am addicted to cute/fun/neat stationary. I have a whole drawer full of it. And I love buying stamps that have fun themes and matching them to the person I am sending the card to.
My grandmother collected stamps and I used to go buy the new ones and we’d send her mail using them so they would be cancelled properly. It became so ingrained in me that I can’t use anything but commerative stamps. No ordinary flags for me….
Depends on the time of day whether my emails make sense and have good grammar. Also whether I am having headache issues. I don’t even realize how badly everything is written until the headache issues clear up and I go “OH MY GOSH”. Which is why I try never to write anything when I am under the weather.
Fun post. Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.
Mel Scott said one of her goals is to write more “Just Because” cards/letters. Which just so happens to be one of my goals this year.
It is an easy way to brighten someone’s week and it makes you feel good while doing it.
I like emails and I like notes/letters. Yes, I am addicted to cute/fun/neat stationary. I have a whole drawer full of it. And I love buying stamps that have fun themes and matching them to the person I am sending the card to.
My grandmother collected stamps and I used to go buy the new ones and we’d send her mail using them so they would be cancelled properly. It became so ingrained in me that I can’t use anything but commerative stamps. No ordinary flags for me….
Depends on the time of day whether my emails make sense and have good grammar. Also whether I am having headache issues. I don’t even realize how badly everything is written until the headache issues clear up and I go “OH MY GOSH”. Which is why I try never to write anything when I am under the weather.
Fun post. Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.
Mel Scott said one of her goals is to write more “Just Because” cards/letters. Which just so happens to be one of my goals this year.
It is an easy way to brighten someone’s week and it makes you feel good while doing it.
I like emails and I like notes/letters. Yes, I am addicted to cute/fun/neat stationary. I have a whole drawer full of it. And I love buying stamps that have fun themes and matching them to the person I am sending the card to.
My grandmother collected stamps and I used to go buy the new ones and we’d send her mail using them so they would be cancelled properly. It became so ingrained in me that I can’t use anything but commerative stamps. No ordinary flags for me….
Depends on the time of day whether my emails make sense and have good grammar. Also whether I am having headache issues. I don’t even realize how badly everything is written until the headache issues clear up and I go “OH MY GOSH”. Which is why I try never to write anything when I am under the weather.
Fun post. Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.
Mel Scott said one of her goals is to write more “Just Because” cards/letters. Which just so happens to be one of my goals this year.
It is an easy way to brighten someone’s week and it makes you feel good while doing it.
I like emails and I like notes/letters. Yes, I am addicted to cute/fun/neat stationary. I have a whole drawer full of it. And I love buying stamps that have fun themes and matching them to the person I am sending the card to.
My grandmother collected stamps and I used to go buy the new ones and we’d send her mail using them so they would be cancelled properly. It became so ingrained in me that I can’t use anything but commerative stamps. No ordinary flags for me….
Depends on the time of day whether my emails make sense and have good grammar. Also whether I am having headache issues. I don’t even realize how badly everything is written until the headache issues clear up and I go “OH MY GOSH”. Which is why I try never to write anything when I am under the weather.
Fun post. Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.
I vaguely recall (probably in a galaxy far, far away) writing letters every week to my parents. I have a letter that my father made a fair copy of because he was afraid that his deeply heartfelt letter might not reach me in Egypt; I re-read it at least once a year. It was written on yellow legal paper with pencil (a mechanical pencil I’m sure).
Since once again, I’m far from friends and family, I do send postcards to those ladies who don’t use email. What amazes me is the size and shape of cards. Depending on what post service I use, I often have to pay extra for a square or slightly oversize cards. For that reason, I have come across an online service that allows me to use my photos, write a caption underneath them, and then a comment on the back; the cost is pretty comparable when you consider the time and effort to make sure that I have the right postage, the card, and the postage. An added benefit is that they keep a short archive that I can check to see what I sent and said because I sometimes forget.
I vaguely recall (probably in a galaxy far, far away) writing letters every week to my parents. I have a letter that my father made a fair copy of because he was afraid that his deeply heartfelt letter might not reach me in Egypt; I re-read it at least once a year. It was written on yellow legal paper with pencil (a mechanical pencil I’m sure).
Since once again, I’m far from friends and family, I do send postcards to those ladies who don’t use email. What amazes me is the size and shape of cards. Depending on what post service I use, I often have to pay extra for a square or slightly oversize cards. For that reason, I have come across an online service that allows me to use my photos, write a caption underneath them, and then a comment on the back; the cost is pretty comparable when you consider the time and effort to make sure that I have the right postage, the card, and the postage. An added benefit is that they keep a short archive that I can check to see what I sent and said because I sometimes forget.
I vaguely recall (probably in a galaxy far, far away) writing letters every week to my parents. I have a letter that my father made a fair copy of because he was afraid that his deeply heartfelt letter might not reach me in Egypt; I re-read it at least once a year. It was written on yellow legal paper with pencil (a mechanical pencil I’m sure).
Since once again, I’m far from friends and family, I do send postcards to those ladies who don’t use email. What amazes me is the size and shape of cards. Depending on what post service I use, I often have to pay extra for a square or slightly oversize cards. For that reason, I have come across an online service that allows me to use my photos, write a caption underneath them, and then a comment on the back; the cost is pretty comparable when you consider the time and effort to make sure that I have the right postage, the card, and the postage. An added benefit is that they keep a short archive that I can check to see what I sent and said because I sometimes forget.
I vaguely recall (probably in a galaxy far, far away) writing letters every week to my parents. I have a letter that my father made a fair copy of because he was afraid that his deeply heartfelt letter might not reach me in Egypt; I re-read it at least once a year. It was written on yellow legal paper with pencil (a mechanical pencil I’m sure).
Since once again, I’m far from friends and family, I do send postcards to those ladies who don’t use email. What amazes me is the size and shape of cards. Depending on what post service I use, I often have to pay extra for a square or slightly oversize cards. For that reason, I have come across an online service that allows me to use my photos, write a caption underneath them, and then a comment on the back; the cost is pretty comparable when you consider the time and effort to make sure that I have the right postage, the card, and the postage. An added benefit is that they keep a short archive that I can check to see what I sent and said because I sometimes forget.
I vaguely recall (probably in a galaxy far, far away) writing letters every week to my parents. I have a letter that my father made a fair copy of because he was afraid that his deeply heartfelt letter might not reach me in Egypt; I re-read it at least once a year. It was written on yellow legal paper with pencil (a mechanical pencil I’m sure).
Since once again, I’m far from friends and family, I do send postcards to those ladies who don’t use email. What amazes me is the size and shape of cards. Depending on what post service I use, I often have to pay extra for a square or slightly oversize cards. For that reason, I have come across an online service that allows me to use my photos, write a caption underneath them, and then a comment on the back; the cost is pretty comparable when you consider the time and effort to make sure that I have the right postage, the card, and the postage. An added benefit is that they keep a short archive that I can check to see what I sent and said because I sometimes forget.
I’m a note card fiend. I joke that the introvert in me sends out cards all the time so people won’t call me and want to chat on the phone. LOL Any time I see note cards in a store, I tend to get sidetracked. In my teen years I use to write 15-20 page letters to my closest friends who lived hours away from me. I wonder occasionally how much postage my mother purchased. I even had my own designed and imprinted note cards made for the first time this year and felt very upscale.
I’m a note card fiend. I joke that the introvert in me sends out cards all the time so people won’t call me and want to chat on the phone. LOL Any time I see note cards in a store, I tend to get sidetracked. In my teen years I use to write 15-20 page letters to my closest friends who lived hours away from me. I wonder occasionally how much postage my mother purchased. I even had my own designed and imprinted note cards made for the first time this year and felt very upscale.
I’m a note card fiend. I joke that the introvert in me sends out cards all the time so people won’t call me and want to chat on the phone. LOL Any time I see note cards in a store, I tend to get sidetracked. In my teen years I use to write 15-20 page letters to my closest friends who lived hours away from me. I wonder occasionally how much postage my mother purchased. I even had my own designed and imprinted note cards made for the first time this year and felt very upscale.
I’m a note card fiend. I joke that the introvert in me sends out cards all the time so people won’t call me and want to chat on the phone. LOL Any time I see note cards in a store, I tend to get sidetracked. In my teen years I use to write 15-20 page letters to my closest friends who lived hours away from me. I wonder occasionally how much postage my mother purchased. I even had my own designed and imprinted note cards made for the first time this year and felt very upscale.
I’m a note card fiend. I joke that the introvert in me sends out cards all the time so people won’t call me and want to chat on the phone. LOL Any time I see note cards in a store, I tend to get sidetracked. In my teen years I use to write 15-20 page letters to my closest friends who lived hours away from me. I wonder occasionally how much postage my mother purchased. I even had my own designed and imprinted note cards made for the first time this year and felt very upscale.
Thanks, Mary — yes I think letters were more thoughtfully written. Though possibly not as frequent as email. But I cant imagine anyone printing off and bundling up a collection of emails to keep, as people used to bundle up letters.
Thanks, Mary — yes I think letters were more thoughtfully written. Though possibly not as frequent as email. But I cant imagine anyone printing off and bundling up a collection of emails to keep, as people used to bundle up letters.
Thanks, Mary — yes I think letters were more thoughtfully written. Though possibly not as frequent as email. But I cant imagine anyone printing off and bundling up a collection of emails to keep, as people used to bundle up letters.
Thanks, Mary — yes I think letters were more thoughtfully written. Though possibly not as frequent as email. But I cant imagine anyone printing off and bundling up a collection of emails to keep, as people used to bundle up letters.
Thanks, Mary — yes I think letters were more thoughtfully written. Though possibly not as frequent as email. But I cant imagine anyone printing off and bundling up a collection of emails to keep, as people used to bundle up letters.
I think it wasnt so much that paper was so costly (though it wasnt cheap) but that postage was expensive (unless you had a lord who could frank it for you for free) and the poat was charged per sheet of paper used. So you got the most you could out of the paper you had.
I think it wasnt so much that paper was so costly (though it wasnt cheap) but that postage was expensive (unless you had a lord who could frank it for you for free) and the poat was charged per sheet of paper used. So you got the most you could out of the paper you had.
I think it wasnt so much that paper was so costly (though it wasnt cheap) but that postage was expensive (unless you had a lord who could frank it for you for free) and the poat was charged per sheet of paper used. So you got the most you could out of the paper you had.
I think it wasnt so much that paper was so costly (though it wasnt cheap) but that postage was expensive (unless you had a lord who could frank it for you for free) and the poat was charged per sheet of paper used. So you got the most you could out of the paper you had.
I think it wasnt so much that paper was so costly (though it wasnt cheap) but that postage was expensive (unless you had a lord who could frank it for you for free) and the poat was charged per sheet of paper used. So you got the most you could out of the paper you had.
“When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes”
That’s very true, Sonya, and when a book is published it goes to such a wide range of experts. What a shame your postcards didn’t arrive — I always send lots of letters and cards when I’m travelling and I’ve never had any trouble. Then again, I don’t exactly check. Have a great trip to Europe.
“When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes”
That’s very true, Sonya, and when a book is published it goes to such a wide range of experts. What a shame your postcards didn’t arrive — I always send lots of letters and cards when I’m travelling and I’ve never had any trouble. Then again, I don’t exactly check. Have a great trip to Europe.
“When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes”
That’s very true, Sonya, and when a book is published it goes to such a wide range of experts. What a shame your postcards didn’t arrive — I always send lots of letters and cards when I’m travelling and I’ve never had any trouble. Then again, I don’t exactly check. Have a great trip to Europe.
“When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes”
That’s very true, Sonya, and when a book is published it goes to such a wide range of experts. What a shame your postcards didn’t arrive — I always send lots of letters and cards when I’m travelling and I’ve never had any trouble. Then again, I don’t exactly check. Have a great trip to Europe.
“When you know a lot about something it’s so hard to overlook mistakes”
That’s very true, Sonya, and when a book is published it goes to such a wide range of experts. What a shame your postcards didn’t arrive — I always send lots of letters and cards when I’m travelling and I’ve never had any trouble. Then again, I don’t exactly check. Have a great trip to Europe.
Sue, I think a lot of us do in fact adore email, while bemoaning the loss of real paper letters — after all, what do we use every day? *g* Email is so immediate and easy that it fosters closeness, and as well, people are often less formal in email than they are in letters, which adds a different flavor.
I think perhaps we get so much email that it’s not as special as a real letter. I know I start most days with a stack of emails to answer and send, whereas in my letter writing days it was much less of a pile, so perhaps n=more of a pleasure to be anticipated.
Sue, I think a lot of us do in fact adore email, while bemoaning the loss of real paper letters — after all, what do we use every day? *g* Email is so immediate and easy that it fosters closeness, and as well, people are often less formal in email than they are in letters, which adds a different flavor.
I think perhaps we get so much email that it’s not as special as a real letter. I know I start most days with a stack of emails to answer and send, whereas in my letter writing days it was much less of a pile, so perhaps n=more of a pleasure to be anticipated.
Sue, I think a lot of us do in fact adore email, while bemoaning the loss of real paper letters — after all, what do we use every day? *g* Email is so immediate and easy that it fosters closeness, and as well, people are often less formal in email than they are in letters, which adds a different flavor.
I think perhaps we get so much email that it’s not as special as a real letter. I know I start most days with a stack of emails to answer and send, whereas in my letter writing days it was much less of a pile, so perhaps n=more of a pleasure to be anticipated.
Sue, I think a lot of us do in fact adore email, while bemoaning the loss of real paper letters — after all, what do we use every day? *g* Email is so immediate and easy that it fosters closeness, and as well, people are often less formal in email than they are in letters, which adds a different flavor.
I think perhaps we get so much email that it’s not as special as a real letter. I know I start most days with a stack of emails to answer and send, whereas in my letter writing days it was much less of a pile, so perhaps n=more of a pleasure to be anticipated.
Sue, I think a lot of us do in fact adore email, while bemoaning the loss of real paper letters — after all, what do we use every day? *g* Email is so immediate and easy that it fosters closeness, and as well, people are often less formal in email than they are in letters, which adds a different flavor.
I think perhaps we get so much email that it’s not as special as a real letter. I know I start most days with a stack of emails to answer and send, whereas in my letter writing days it was much less of a pile, so perhaps n=more of a pleasure to be anticipated.
“Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.”
Yes, that’s how it’s been treated in some of the books I’ve read, and why I wanted to correct the misapprehension.
Foolscap was in use in schools when I was a child — my older brother and sisters used it in high school, so I have actual experience of how big it is. I think it’s that ‘foolscap” contains the word “fool” that makes people assume it’s some scrap.
“Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.”
Yes, that’s how it’s been treated in some of the books I’ve read, and why I wanted to correct the misapprehension.
Foolscap was in use in schools when I was a child — my older brother and sisters used it in high school, so I have actual experience of how big it is. I think it’s that ‘foolscap” contains the word “fool” that makes people assume it’s some scrap.
“Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.”
Yes, that’s how it’s been treated in some of the books I’ve read, and why I wanted to correct the misapprehension.
Foolscap was in use in schools when I was a child — my older brother and sisters used it in high school, so I have actual experience of how big it is. I think it’s that ‘foolscap” contains the word “fool” that makes people assume it’s some scrap.
“Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.”
Yes, that’s how it’s been treated in some of the books I’ve read, and why I wanted to correct the misapprehension.
Foolscap was in use in schools when I was a child — my older brother and sisters used it in high school, so I have actual experience of how big it is. I think it’s that ‘foolscap” contains the word “fool” that makes people assume it’s some scrap.
“Thanks for talking about the size of foolscap. I always thought of it as “scrap” paper or what was used to write a draft of something.”
Yes, that’s how it’s been treated in some of the books I’ve read, and why I wanted to correct the misapprehension.
Foolscap was in use in schools when I was a child — my older brother and sisters used it in high school, so I have actual experience of how big it is. I think it’s that ‘foolscap” contains the word “fool” that makes people assume it’s some scrap.
Shannon, how special to have that particular letter your father write you. That’s the joy of having things in writing — you can read them over and over.
That postcard service sounds like a great service. I have a couple of cards that friend have sent me, using photos they took.
Shannon, how special to have that particular letter your father write you. That’s the joy of having things in writing — you can read them over and over.
That postcard service sounds like a great service. I have a couple of cards that friend have sent me, using photos they took.
Shannon, how special to have that particular letter your father write you. That’s the joy of having things in writing — you can read them over and over.
That postcard service sounds like a great service. I have a couple of cards that friend have sent me, using photos they took.
Shannon, how special to have that particular letter your father write you. That’s the joy of having things in writing — you can read them over and over.
That postcard service sounds like a great service. I have a couple of cards that friend have sent me, using photos they took.
Shannon, how special to have that particular letter your father write you. That’s the joy of having things in writing — you can read them over and over.
That postcard service sounds like a great service. I have a couple of cards that friend have sent me, using photos they took.
Ah, I recognise another stationery junkie. I think that’s part of what’s behind the popularity of card-making — people want to make something that’s unique and personal. I wrote scads of letters in my teens, too, and that’ only dropped off once I got started on email.
Ah, I recognise another stationery junkie. I think that’s part of what’s behind the popularity of card-making — people want to make something that’s unique and personal. I wrote scads of letters in my teens, too, and that’ only dropped off once I got started on email.
Ah, I recognise another stationery junkie. I think that’s part of what’s behind the popularity of card-making — people want to make something that’s unique and personal. I wrote scads of letters in my teens, too, and that’ only dropped off once I got started on email.
Ah, I recognise another stationery junkie. I think that’s part of what’s behind the popularity of card-making — people want to make something that’s unique and personal. I wrote scads of letters in my teens, too, and that’ only dropped off once I got started on email.
Ah, I recognise another stationery junkie. I think that’s part of what’s behind the popularity of card-making — people want to make something that’s unique and personal. I wrote scads of letters in my teens, too, and that’ only dropped off once I got started on email.
The reused paper is something I’ve seen myself. When I was a girl a friend of my mother’s had a paper written by her several times great grandmother when she was a girl. On one side was her math homework. On the other was the story of her older brother, who came in from riding in the rain, caught a chill, and died of pneumonia. It was so poignant to see the prosaic arithmetic and the story of the tragedy so close together. They lived on a farm in the mid-1800’s, and it brought home how isolated people often were and how primitive the medical care. Life is still fragile today, but nothing like the way it was then. I am very grateful for modern hospitals and medicines.
The reused paper is something I’ve seen myself. When I was a girl a friend of my mother’s had a paper written by her several times great grandmother when she was a girl. On one side was her math homework. On the other was the story of her older brother, who came in from riding in the rain, caught a chill, and died of pneumonia. It was so poignant to see the prosaic arithmetic and the story of the tragedy so close together. They lived on a farm in the mid-1800’s, and it brought home how isolated people often were and how primitive the medical care. Life is still fragile today, but nothing like the way it was then. I am very grateful for modern hospitals and medicines.
The reused paper is something I’ve seen myself. When I was a girl a friend of my mother’s had a paper written by her several times great grandmother when she was a girl. On one side was her math homework. On the other was the story of her older brother, who came in from riding in the rain, caught a chill, and died of pneumonia. It was so poignant to see the prosaic arithmetic and the story of the tragedy so close together. They lived on a farm in the mid-1800’s, and it brought home how isolated people often were and how primitive the medical care. Life is still fragile today, but nothing like the way it was then. I am very grateful for modern hospitals and medicines.
The reused paper is something I’ve seen myself. When I was a girl a friend of my mother’s had a paper written by her several times great grandmother when she was a girl. On one side was her math homework. On the other was the story of her older brother, who came in from riding in the rain, caught a chill, and died of pneumonia. It was so poignant to see the prosaic arithmetic and the story of the tragedy so close together. They lived on a farm in the mid-1800’s, and it brought home how isolated people often were and how primitive the medical care. Life is still fragile today, but nothing like the way it was then. I am very grateful for modern hospitals and medicines.
The reused paper is something I’ve seen myself. When I was a girl a friend of my mother’s had a paper written by her several times great grandmother when she was a girl. On one side was her math homework. On the other was the story of her older brother, who came in from riding in the rain, caught a chill, and died of pneumonia. It was so poignant to see the prosaic arithmetic and the story of the tragedy so close together. They lived on a farm in the mid-1800’s, and it brought home how isolated people often were and how primitive the medical care. Life is still fragile today, but nothing like the way it was then. I am very grateful for modern hospitals and medicines.
I have boxes of beautiful stationery that I’ve been given–and I never use it because my handwriting is so awful that I don’t want to impose it on anyone. If I have much to say, I’ll type and print from the computer. The only exception is thank you notes and condolences, both of which I think -ought- to be handwritten no matter how badly I do it.
I have boxes of beautiful stationery that I’ve been given–and I never use it because my handwriting is so awful that I don’t want to impose it on anyone. If I have much to say, I’ll type and print from the computer. The only exception is thank you notes and condolences, both of which I think -ought- to be handwritten no matter how badly I do it.
I have boxes of beautiful stationery that I’ve been given–and I never use it because my handwriting is so awful that I don’t want to impose it on anyone. If I have much to say, I’ll type and print from the computer. The only exception is thank you notes and condolences, both of which I think -ought- to be handwritten no matter how badly I do it.
I have boxes of beautiful stationery that I’ve been given–and I never use it because my handwriting is so awful that I don’t want to impose it on anyone. If I have much to say, I’ll type and print from the computer. The only exception is thank you notes and condolences, both of which I think -ought- to be handwritten no matter how badly I do it.
I have boxes of beautiful stationery that I’ve been given–and I never use it because my handwriting is so awful that I don’t want to impose it on anyone. If I have much to say, I’ll type and print from the computer. The only exception is thank you notes and condolences, both of which I think -ought- to be handwritten no matter how badly I do it.
Love this! Good fun. I suspect “foolscap” just sounds so cool and so … Regency … that authors can’t hold themselves back!
Love this! Good fun. I suspect “foolscap” just sounds so cool and so … Regency … that authors can’t hold themselves back!
Love this! Good fun. I suspect “foolscap” just sounds so cool and so … Regency … that authors can’t hold themselves back!
Love this! Good fun. I suspect “foolscap” just sounds so cool and so … Regency … that authors can’t hold themselves back!
Love this! Good fun. I suspect “foolscap” just sounds so cool and so … Regency … that authors can’t hold themselves back!
My great-grandfather , my Dad’s grandad and his Mum, my grandmother wrote on areogram blue airmail sheets the thickness of almost vellum. They would fill ever square inch. It was expensive to send airmail across the pond. I’d buy them too. The postage was paid on it if it didn’t go over the folded size. I loved these blue letters and kept them after they both died. Nanny’s were harder to put all together but great-grandad didn’t write me as long as she did. I started writing him when I was a teen and found one of his letters to my Dad. I asked Dad when he’d died. When I found out he was still alive I was horrified no one was writing him. He passed away in his sleep at about 94. In the UK.
Letters are so important.
My great-grandfather , my Dad’s grandad and his Mum, my grandmother wrote on areogram blue airmail sheets the thickness of almost vellum. They would fill ever square inch. It was expensive to send airmail across the pond. I’d buy them too. The postage was paid on it if it didn’t go over the folded size. I loved these blue letters and kept them after they both died. Nanny’s were harder to put all together but great-grandad didn’t write me as long as she did. I started writing him when I was a teen and found one of his letters to my Dad. I asked Dad when he’d died. When I found out he was still alive I was horrified no one was writing him. He passed away in his sleep at about 94. In the UK.
Letters are so important.
My great-grandfather , my Dad’s grandad and his Mum, my grandmother wrote on areogram blue airmail sheets the thickness of almost vellum. They would fill ever square inch. It was expensive to send airmail across the pond. I’d buy them too. The postage was paid on it if it didn’t go over the folded size. I loved these blue letters and kept them after they both died. Nanny’s were harder to put all together but great-grandad didn’t write me as long as she did. I started writing him when I was a teen and found one of his letters to my Dad. I asked Dad when he’d died. When I found out he was still alive I was horrified no one was writing him. He passed away in his sleep at about 94. In the UK.
Letters are so important.
My great-grandfather , my Dad’s grandad and his Mum, my grandmother wrote on areogram blue airmail sheets the thickness of almost vellum. They would fill ever square inch. It was expensive to send airmail across the pond. I’d buy them too. The postage was paid on it if it didn’t go over the folded size. I loved these blue letters and kept them after they both died. Nanny’s were harder to put all together but great-grandad didn’t write me as long as she did. I started writing him when I was a teen and found one of his letters to my Dad. I asked Dad when he’d died. When I found out he was still alive I was horrified no one was writing him. He passed away in his sleep at about 94. In the UK.
Letters are so important.
My great-grandfather , my Dad’s grandad and his Mum, my grandmother wrote on areogram blue airmail sheets the thickness of almost vellum. They would fill ever square inch. It was expensive to send airmail across the pond. I’d buy them too. The postage was paid on it if it didn’t go over the folded size. I loved these blue letters and kept them after they both died. Nanny’s were harder to put all together but great-grandad didn’t write me as long as she did. I started writing him when I was a teen and found one of his letters to my Dad. I asked Dad when he’d died. When I found out he was still alive I was horrified no one was writing him. He passed away in his sleep at about 94. In the UK.
Letters are so important.
I remember those aerogram sheets — I probably still have a few in my boxes of collected letters. My mum used them a lot — and yes, she’s squeeze in every word she could. Letters are important, especially in this age where people are often so far apart, but I think Skype and phone and email have replaced them.
I remember those aerogram sheets — I probably still have a few in my boxes of collected letters. My mum used them a lot — and yes, she’s squeeze in every word she could. Letters are important, especially in this age where people are often so far apart, but I think Skype and phone and email have replaced them.
I remember those aerogram sheets — I probably still have a few in my boxes of collected letters. My mum used them a lot — and yes, she’s squeeze in every word she could. Letters are important, especially in this age where people are often so far apart, but I think Skype and phone and email have replaced them.
I remember those aerogram sheets — I probably still have a few in my boxes of collected letters. My mum used them a lot — and yes, she’s squeeze in every word she could. Letters are important, especially in this age where people are often so far apart, but I think Skype and phone and email have replaced them.
I remember those aerogram sheets — I probably still have a few in my boxes of collected letters. My mum used them a lot — and yes, she’s squeeze in every word she could. Letters are important, especially in this age where people are often so far apart, but I think Skype and phone and email have replaced them.
Susan, how wonderful that that piece of paper survived so long. Small, seemingly insignificant and yet so powerful and poignant. When I hear that people have tossed away or burned a pile of old letters and documents, the woman-who-needs-to-declutter understands, but the packrat and historian in me winces.
Susan, how wonderful that that piece of paper survived so long. Small, seemingly insignificant and yet so powerful and poignant. When I hear that people have tossed away or burned a pile of old letters and documents, the woman-who-needs-to-declutter understands, but the packrat and historian in me winces.
Susan, how wonderful that that piece of paper survived so long. Small, seemingly insignificant and yet so powerful and poignant. When I hear that people have tossed away or burned a pile of old letters and documents, the woman-who-needs-to-declutter understands, but the packrat and historian in me winces.
Susan, how wonderful that that piece of paper survived so long. Small, seemingly insignificant and yet so powerful and poignant. When I hear that people have tossed away or burned a pile of old letters and documents, the woman-who-needs-to-declutter understands, but the packrat and historian in me winces.
Susan, how wonderful that that piece of paper survived so long. Small, seemingly insignificant and yet so powerful and poignant. When I hear that people have tossed away or burned a pile of old letters and documents, the woman-who-needs-to-declutter understands, but the packrat and historian in me winces.
I’m a bit the same, Mary Jo — and I have some really lovely journals that have never been written on for the same reason. But, you know, handwriting conveys the person so much better. One of my friends recently produced a dreadful scrawled letter of mine sent when we were teenagers, and containing some truly horrible stick-figure illustrations. She loved it and had kept it all this time.
I’m a bit the same, Mary Jo — and I have some really lovely journals that have never been written on for the same reason. But, you know, handwriting conveys the person so much better. One of my friends recently produced a dreadful scrawled letter of mine sent when we were teenagers, and containing some truly horrible stick-figure illustrations. She loved it and had kept it all this time.
I’m a bit the same, Mary Jo — and I have some really lovely journals that have never been written on for the same reason. But, you know, handwriting conveys the person so much better. One of my friends recently produced a dreadful scrawled letter of mine sent when we were teenagers, and containing some truly horrible stick-figure illustrations. She loved it and had kept it all this time.
I’m a bit the same, Mary Jo — and I have some really lovely journals that have never been written on for the same reason. But, you know, handwriting conveys the person so much better. One of my friends recently produced a dreadful scrawled letter of mine sent when we were teenagers, and containing some truly horrible stick-figure illustrations. She loved it and had kept it all this time.
I’m a bit the same, Mary Jo — and I have some really lovely journals that have never been written on for the same reason. But, you know, handwriting conveys the person so much better. One of my friends recently produced a dreadful scrawled letter of mine sent when we were teenagers, and containing some truly horrible stick-figure illustrations. She loved it and had kept it all this time.
I think that’s exactly it, Laura, and so it’s never simply a piece of paper the heroines use, it’s always foolscap! LOL
I think that’s exactly it, Laura, and so it’s never simply a piece of paper the heroines use, it’s always foolscap! LOL
I think that’s exactly it, Laura, and so it’s never simply a piece of paper the heroines use, it’s always foolscap! LOL
I think that’s exactly it, Laura, and so it’s never simply a piece of paper the heroines use, it’s always foolscap! LOL
I think that’s exactly it, Laura, and so it’s never simply a piece of paper the heroines use, it’s always foolscap! LOL
I used to be a stationery addict. Would have them custom made, in letter matched envelopes set, note card(like small greeting cards),not postcard, 3 quarter-fold letter (like the old aerogramme), address labels with style and occasion to match… the good ol’days when my life was less complicated, I could indulge in things like that. ((sigh))
I used to be a stationery addict. Would have them custom made, in letter matched envelopes set, note card(like small greeting cards),not postcard, 3 quarter-fold letter (like the old aerogramme), address labels with style and occasion to match… the good ol’days when my life was less complicated, I could indulge in things like that. ((sigh))
I used to be a stationery addict. Would have them custom made, in letter matched envelopes set, note card(like small greeting cards),not postcard, 3 quarter-fold letter (like the old aerogramme), address labels with style and occasion to match… the good ol’days when my life was less complicated, I could indulge in things like that. ((sigh))
I used to be a stationery addict. Would have them custom made, in letter matched envelopes set, note card(like small greeting cards),not postcard, 3 quarter-fold letter (like the old aerogramme), address labels with style and occasion to match… the good ol’days when my life was less complicated, I could indulge in things like that. ((sigh))
I used to be a stationery addict. Would have them custom made, in letter matched envelopes set, note card(like small greeting cards),not postcard, 3 quarter-fold letter (like the old aerogramme), address labels with style and occasion to match… the good ol’days when my life was less complicated, I could indulge in things like that. ((sigh))
Joy, your stationery sounds beautiful. Having really good quality writing paper is a luxury and makes for a wonderful writing experience.
Joy, your stationery sounds beautiful. Having really good quality writing paper is a luxury and makes for a wonderful writing experience.
Joy, your stationery sounds beautiful. Having really good quality writing paper is a luxury and makes for a wonderful writing experience.
Joy, your stationery sounds beautiful. Having really good quality writing paper is a luxury and makes for a wonderful writing experience.
Joy, your stationery sounds beautiful. Having really good quality writing paper is a luxury and makes for a wonderful writing experience.
In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen foolscap as paper with a funny, jingly cap perched on one corner. Instead, it’s big, serious paper? Who woulda thunk it! *g*
I sooo agree with you about authors who get the details wrong. In these days of Google and Wikipedia there’s just no excuse for it. An Amazon comment to a reviewer’s rant on this said, “Who cares? It’s just a fantasy.” No, it was billed as a “Regency romp.” The romp IMO was the way the author trampled the details. Grr!
In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen foolscap as paper with a funny, jingly cap perched on one corner. Instead, it’s big, serious paper? Who woulda thunk it! *g*
I sooo agree with you about authors who get the details wrong. In these days of Google and Wikipedia there’s just no excuse for it. An Amazon comment to a reviewer’s rant on this said, “Who cares? It’s just a fantasy.” No, it was billed as a “Regency romp.” The romp IMO was the way the author trampled the details. Grr!
In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen foolscap as paper with a funny, jingly cap perched on one corner. Instead, it’s big, serious paper? Who woulda thunk it! *g*
I sooo agree with you about authors who get the details wrong. In these days of Google and Wikipedia there’s just no excuse for it. An Amazon comment to a reviewer’s rant on this said, “Who cares? It’s just a fantasy.” No, it was billed as a “Regency romp.” The romp IMO was the way the author trampled the details. Grr!
In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen foolscap as paper with a funny, jingly cap perched on one corner. Instead, it’s big, serious paper? Who woulda thunk it! *g*
I sooo agree with you about authors who get the details wrong. In these days of Google and Wikipedia there’s just no excuse for it. An Amazon comment to a reviewer’s rant on this said, “Who cares? It’s just a fantasy.” No, it was billed as a “Regency romp.” The romp IMO was the way the author trampled the details. Grr!
In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen foolscap as paper with a funny, jingly cap perched on one corner. Instead, it’s big, serious paper? Who woulda thunk it! *g*
I sooo agree with you about authors who get the details wrong. In these days of Google and Wikipedia there’s just no excuse for it. An Amazon comment to a reviewer’s rant on this said, “Who cares? It’s just a fantasy.” No, it was billed as a “Regency romp.” The romp IMO was the way the author trampled the details. Grr!
Thanks, Mary — the thing is, for probably 90% of readers getting the details right doesn’t matter. But for the other 10% it does. Authors do their best to get things right, but we all slip up at some stage, despite best intentions. As for google — there’s a lot of great info on the web, but also some misinformation. All we can do is do our best to get as much right as we can. But in the long run, it’s the story that counts.
Thanks, Mary — the thing is, for probably 90% of readers getting the details right doesn’t matter. But for the other 10% it does. Authors do their best to get things right, but we all slip up at some stage, despite best intentions. As for google — there’s a lot of great info on the web, but also some misinformation. All we can do is do our best to get as much right as we can. But in the long run, it’s the story that counts.
Thanks, Mary — the thing is, for probably 90% of readers getting the details right doesn’t matter. But for the other 10% it does. Authors do their best to get things right, but we all slip up at some stage, despite best intentions. As for google — there’s a lot of great info on the web, but also some misinformation. All we can do is do our best to get as much right as we can. But in the long run, it’s the story that counts.
Thanks, Mary — the thing is, for probably 90% of readers getting the details right doesn’t matter. But for the other 10% it does. Authors do their best to get things right, but we all slip up at some stage, despite best intentions. As for google — there’s a lot of great info on the web, but also some misinformation. All we can do is do our best to get as much right as we can. But in the long run, it’s the story that counts.
Thanks, Mary — the thing is, for probably 90% of readers getting the details right doesn’t matter. But for the other 10% it does. Authors do their best to get things right, but we all slip up at some stage, despite best intentions. As for google — there’s a lot of great info on the web, but also some misinformation. All we can do is do our best to get as much right as we can. But in the long run, it’s the story that counts.
Karin, about 10 years ago, one of my aunts sent me a huge manila envelope filled with cards and letters that had been mailed to my Grandma from different members of my family – most of them from my mother. My grandma had lived with Aunt Jeanne during the last years of her life. My aunt was cleaning things out because she was getting ready to move and came across all the things my grandma had kept. Rather than just throw them out she sent them to me.
What a treasure trove. There were cards and letters going all the back to the 1920s. Most of them were from my mother to her mother. So interesting to read. Like opening your own personal family history book.
Karin, about 10 years ago, one of my aunts sent me a huge manila envelope filled with cards and letters that had been mailed to my Grandma from different members of my family – most of them from my mother. My grandma had lived with Aunt Jeanne during the last years of her life. My aunt was cleaning things out because she was getting ready to move and came across all the things my grandma had kept. Rather than just throw them out she sent them to me.
What a treasure trove. There were cards and letters going all the back to the 1920s. Most of them were from my mother to her mother. So interesting to read. Like opening your own personal family history book.
Karin, about 10 years ago, one of my aunts sent me a huge manila envelope filled with cards and letters that had been mailed to my Grandma from different members of my family – most of them from my mother. My grandma had lived with Aunt Jeanne during the last years of her life. My aunt was cleaning things out because she was getting ready to move and came across all the things my grandma had kept. Rather than just throw them out she sent them to me.
What a treasure trove. There were cards and letters going all the back to the 1920s. Most of them were from my mother to her mother. So interesting to read. Like opening your own personal family history book.
Karin, about 10 years ago, one of my aunts sent me a huge manila envelope filled with cards and letters that had been mailed to my Grandma from different members of my family – most of them from my mother. My grandma had lived with Aunt Jeanne during the last years of her life. My aunt was cleaning things out because she was getting ready to move and came across all the things my grandma had kept. Rather than just throw them out she sent them to me.
What a treasure trove. There were cards and letters going all the back to the 1920s. Most of them were from my mother to her mother. So interesting to read. Like opening your own personal family history book.
Karin, about 10 years ago, one of my aunts sent me a huge manila envelope filled with cards and letters that had been mailed to my Grandma from different members of my family – most of them from my mother. My grandma had lived with Aunt Jeanne during the last years of her life. My aunt was cleaning things out because she was getting ready to move and came across all the things my grandma had kept. Rather than just throw them out she sent them to me.
What a treasure trove. There were cards and letters going all the back to the 1920s. Most of them were from my mother to her mother. So interesting to read. Like opening your own personal family history book.
I bemoan the loss of letter writing. I loved it as a child. I had two Aunts I wrote to often and I loved getting letters in return. The excitement I felt is the excitement I feel now when I get a parcel of books in the post 🙂
Handwriting is becoming a lost art I think. I do like my texts though. I’m in touch quite a lot with two of my brothers. We have a family txt app and can discuss random things at will. Mostly we talk about football as it’s a hobby of ours. Watching it that is, not playing it. (I’d be found in a coma if I tried).
I too write emails as if I was writing letters and even my texts are dotted and crossed. No text speak for me.
I do get mad when a very obvious mistake is made in a novel. I feel like shouting, ‘look it up’! Fortunately I haven’t come across many which is good because I devour books. Always have one on the go.
Very interesting post.
I bemoan the loss of letter writing. I loved it as a child. I had two Aunts I wrote to often and I loved getting letters in return. The excitement I felt is the excitement I feel now when I get a parcel of books in the post 🙂
Handwriting is becoming a lost art I think. I do like my texts though. I’m in touch quite a lot with two of my brothers. We have a family txt app and can discuss random things at will. Mostly we talk about football as it’s a hobby of ours. Watching it that is, not playing it. (I’d be found in a coma if I tried).
I too write emails as if I was writing letters and even my texts are dotted and crossed. No text speak for me.
I do get mad when a very obvious mistake is made in a novel. I feel like shouting, ‘look it up’! Fortunately I haven’t come across many which is good because I devour books. Always have one on the go.
Very interesting post.
I bemoan the loss of letter writing. I loved it as a child. I had two Aunts I wrote to often and I loved getting letters in return. The excitement I felt is the excitement I feel now when I get a parcel of books in the post 🙂
Handwriting is becoming a lost art I think. I do like my texts though. I’m in touch quite a lot with two of my brothers. We have a family txt app and can discuss random things at will. Mostly we talk about football as it’s a hobby of ours. Watching it that is, not playing it. (I’d be found in a coma if I tried).
I too write emails as if I was writing letters and even my texts are dotted and crossed. No text speak for me.
I do get mad when a very obvious mistake is made in a novel. I feel like shouting, ‘look it up’! Fortunately I haven’t come across many which is good because I devour books. Always have one on the go.
Very interesting post.
I bemoan the loss of letter writing. I loved it as a child. I had two Aunts I wrote to often and I loved getting letters in return. The excitement I felt is the excitement I feel now when I get a parcel of books in the post 🙂
Handwriting is becoming a lost art I think. I do like my texts though. I’m in touch quite a lot with two of my brothers. We have a family txt app and can discuss random things at will. Mostly we talk about football as it’s a hobby of ours. Watching it that is, not playing it. (I’d be found in a coma if I tried).
I too write emails as if I was writing letters and even my texts are dotted and crossed. No text speak for me.
I do get mad when a very obvious mistake is made in a novel. I feel like shouting, ‘look it up’! Fortunately I haven’t come across many which is good because I devour books. Always have one on the go.
Very interesting post.
I bemoan the loss of letter writing. I loved it as a child. I had two Aunts I wrote to often and I loved getting letters in return. The excitement I felt is the excitement I feel now when I get a parcel of books in the post 🙂
Handwriting is becoming a lost art I think. I do like my texts though. I’m in touch quite a lot with two of my brothers. We have a family txt app and can discuss random things at will. Mostly we talk about football as it’s a hobby of ours. Watching it that is, not playing it. (I’d be found in a coma if I tried).
I too write emails as if I was writing letters and even my texts are dotted and crossed. No text speak for me.
I do get mad when a very obvious mistake is made in a novel. I feel like shouting, ‘look it up’! Fortunately I haven’t come across many which is good because I devour books. Always have one on the go.
Very interesting post.
What a wonderful thing for your aunt to have found, Mary — and thank goodness she valued them and sent them to you. Too many people toss out old letters when doing that sort of clean out.
What a wonderful thing for your aunt to have found, Mary — and thank goodness she valued them and sent them to you. Too many people toss out old letters when doing that sort of clean out.
What a wonderful thing for your aunt to have found, Mary — and thank goodness she valued them and sent them to you. Too many people toss out old letters when doing that sort of clean out.
What a wonderful thing for your aunt to have found, Mary — and thank goodness she valued them and sent them to you. Too many people toss out old letters when doing that sort of clean out.
What a wonderful thing for your aunt to have found, Mary — and thank goodness she valued them and sent them to you. Too many people toss out old letters when doing that sort of clean out.
Teresa, I’m also one who generally uses full words and punctuation in texts. I think emails and texts have made communication so much easier and more immediate and everyday, which is great. It does bring family (and friends) closer, I think. But a proper hand-written letter was an event, and I think that’s what I miss. Mind you there days, there’s very little news left to share in a letter anyway, with Facebook etc.
I know what you mean about obvious mistakes. Just last night I started a book fairly recently published and by an author I really admire, and yet she called one of her characters Sir Surname, which is so wrong and just basic if you’re writing a historical containing aristocrats. It was odd as the rest of her research was so good. Luckily it was a minor character and the rest of the writing and the story was so good I was able to ignore it.
Teresa, I’m also one who generally uses full words and punctuation in texts. I think emails and texts have made communication so much easier and more immediate and everyday, which is great. It does bring family (and friends) closer, I think. But a proper hand-written letter was an event, and I think that’s what I miss. Mind you there days, there’s very little news left to share in a letter anyway, with Facebook etc.
I know what you mean about obvious mistakes. Just last night I started a book fairly recently published and by an author I really admire, and yet she called one of her characters Sir Surname, which is so wrong and just basic if you’re writing a historical containing aristocrats. It was odd as the rest of her research was so good. Luckily it was a minor character and the rest of the writing and the story was so good I was able to ignore it.
Teresa, I’m also one who generally uses full words and punctuation in texts. I think emails and texts have made communication so much easier and more immediate and everyday, which is great. It does bring family (and friends) closer, I think. But a proper hand-written letter was an event, and I think that’s what I miss. Mind you there days, there’s very little news left to share in a letter anyway, with Facebook etc.
I know what you mean about obvious mistakes. Just last night I started a book fairly recently published and by an author I really admire, and yet she called one of her characters Sir Surname, which is so wrong and just basic if you’re writing a historical containing aristocrats. It was odd as the rest of her research was so good. Luckily it was a minor character and the rest of the writing and the story was so good I was able to ignore it.
Teresa, I’m also one who generally uses full words and punctuation in texts. I think emails and texts have made communication so much easier and more immediate and everyday, which is great. It does bring family (and friends) closer, I think. But a proper hand-written letter was an event, and I think that’s what I miss. Mind you there days, there’s very little news left to share in a letter anyway, with Facebook etc.
I know what you mean about obvious mistakes. Just last night I started a book fairly recently published and by an author I really admire, and yet she called one of her characters Sir Surname, which is so wrong and just basic if you’re writing a historical containing aristocrats. It was odd as the rest of her research was so good. Luckily it was a minor character and the rest of the writing and the story was so good I was able to ignore it.
Teresa, I’m also one who generally uses full words and punctuation in texts. I think emails and texts have made communication so much easier and more immediate and everyday, which is great. It does bring family (and friends) closer, I think. But a proper hand-written letter was an event, and I think that’s what I miss. Mind you there days, there’s very little news left to share in a letter anyway, with Facebook etc.
I know what you mean about obvious mistakes. Just last night I started a book fairly recently published and by an author I really admire, and yet she called one of her characters Sir Surname, which is so wrong and just basic if you’re writing a historical containing aristocrats. It was odd as the rest of her research was so good. Luckily it was a minor character and the rest of the writing and the story was so good I was able to ignore it.
Oh, Mary! What a priceless gift!
When my mother’s sister died, they found all the letters I’d mailed to my Grandfather and gave me them back. In an age of email, it’s hard to remember when we just wrote and didn’t keep a copy! It was quite interesting to see what my younger self had sent to my beloved Grandfather. 🙂
Oh, Mary! What a priceless gift!
When my mother’s sister died, they found all the letters I’d mailed to my Grandfather and gave me them back. In an age of email, it’s hard to remember when we just wrote and didn’t keep a copy! It was quite interesting to see what my younger self had sent to my beloved Grandfather. 🙂
Oh, Mary! What a priceless gift!
When my mother’s sister died, they found all the letters I’d mailed to my Grandfather and gave me them back. In an age of email, it’s hard to remember when we just wrote and didn’t keep a copy! It was quite interesting to see what my younger self had sent to my beloved Grandfather. 🙂
Oh, Mary! What a priceless gift!
When my mother’s sister died, they found all the letters I’d mailed to my Grandfather and gave me them back. In an age of email, it’s hard to remember when we just wrote and didn’t keep a copy! It was quite interesting to see what my younger self had sent to my beloved Grandfather. 🙂
Oh, Mary! What a priceless gift!
When my mother’s sister died, they found all the letters I’d mailed to my Grandfather and gave me them back. In an age of email, it’s hard to remember when we just wrote and didn’t keep a copy! It was quite interesting to see what my younger self had sent to my beloved Grandfather. 🙂
I make my own cards so I can make them as small or large as I want to. Every year we go on a Retreat and I make 5×7 handmade cards that are blank inside so we can all sign them and send them to someone who wasn’t able to make it or is going through something difficult. I make the envelopes too, to fit the cards.
Each recipient is so appreciative of the cards. They’re not always mailed, sometimes they’re hand delivered too. But it’s a special part of our retreat to always make sure we signed every card.
I find I have to make about 30 a year for the Retreat. Which reminds me that I should get started on the next ones for this year’s. Mother’s Day weekend is when we have it and it’s amazing how quickly it gets here! 🙂
But in making my own cards, it helps feed the addiction for pretty papers and note cards! 😉
I make my own cards so I can make them as small or large as I want to. Every year we go on a Retreat and I make 5×7 handmade cards that are blank inside so we can all sign them and send them to someone who wasn’t able to make it or is going through something difficult. I make the envelopes too, to fit the cards.
Each recipient is so appreciative of the cards. They’re not always mailed, sometimes they’re hand delivered too. But it’s a special part of our retreat to always make sure we signed every card.
I find I have to make about 30 a year for the Retreat. Which reminds me that I should get started on the next ones for this year’s. Mother’s Day weekend is when we have it and it’s amazing how quickly it gets here! 🙂
But in making my own cards, it helps feed the addiction for pretty papers and note cards! 😉
I make my own cards so I can make them as small or large as I want to. Every year we go on a Retreat and I make 5×7 handmade cards that are blank inside so we can all sign them and send them to someone who wasn’t able to make it or is going through something difficult. I make the envelopes too, to fit the cards.
Each recipient is so appreciative of the cards. They’re not always mailed, sometimes they’re hand delivered too. But it’s a special part of our retreat to always make sure we signed every card.
I find I have to make about 30 a year for the Retreat. Which reminds me that I should get started on the next ones for this year’s. Mother’s Day weekend is when we have it and it’s amazing how quickly it gets here! 🙂
But in making my own cards, it helps feed the addiction for pretty papers and note cards! 😉
I make my own cards so I can make them as small or large as I want to. Every year we go on a Retreat and I make 5×7 handmade cards that are blank inside so we can all sign them and send them to someone who wasn’t able to make it or is going through something difficult. I make the envelopes too, to fit the cards.
Each recipient is so appreciative of the cards. They’re not always mailed, sometimes they’re hand delivered too. But it’s a special part of our retreat to always make sure we signed every card.
I find I have to make about 30 a year for the Retreat. Which reminds me that I should get started on the next ones for this year’s. Mother’s Day weekend is when we have it and it’s amazing how quickly it gets here! 🙂
But in making my own cards, it helps feed the addiction for pretty papers and note cards! 😉
I make my own cards so I can make them as small or large as I want to. Every year we go on a Retreat and I make 5×7 handmade cards that are blank inside so we can all sign them and send them to someone who wasn’t able to make it or is going through something difficult. I make the envelopes too, to fit the cards.
Each recipient is so appreciative of the cards. They’re not always mailed, sometimes they’re hand delivered too. But it’s a special part of our retreat to always make sure we signed every card.
I find I have to make about 30 a year for the Retreat. Which reminds me that I should get started on the next ones for this year’s. Mother’s Day weekend is when we have it and it’s amazing how quickly it gets here! 🙂
But in making my own cards, it helps feed the addiction for pretty papers and note cards! 😉
I had penpals in school. I had one in India, a couple in New Zealand, one in Mexico and one on Germany (West Germany as there was still this great wall thingy to be gotten past). I remember how much I enjoyed writing to all these people.
We eventually stopped writing for what ever reasons – I suspect we all grew up and got busy. But one I kept in contact with after school was Monica in Mexico. But when they had that huge earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, I never heard from her again. I often comforted myself just imagining that she lost my address in the confusion. But I was never able to find out. Still haunts me all these years later.
But the addresses were different than up here in Canada or in the US. They would be more descriptive ie: “The white house on the corner…” and I imagined that the white house or whatever the descriptive land mark was might have been destroyed, which is why I never heard back.
So letters are still very precious. But in these days of instant communication, I feel like something was lost from those old pen-pal days of writing a friend of a friend who then became your friend too.
I had penpals in school. I had one in India, a couple in New Zealand, one in Mexico and one on Germany (West Germany as there was still this great wall thingy to be gotten past). I remember how much I enjoyed writing to all these people.
We eventually stopped writing for what ever reasons – I suspect we all grew up and got busy. But one I kept in contact with after school was Monica in Mexico. But when they had that huge earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, I never heard from her again. I often comforted myself just imagining that she lost my address in the confusion. But I was never able to find out. Still haunts me all these years later.
But the addresses were different than up here in Canada or in the US. They would be more descriptive ie: “The white house on the corner…” and I imagined that the white house or whatever the descriptive land mark was might have been destroyed, which is why I never heard back.
So letters are still very precious. But in these days of instant communication, I feel like something was lost from those old pen-pal days of writing a friend of a friend who then became your friend too.
I had penpals in school. I had one in India, a couple in New Zealand, one in Mexico and one on Germany (West Germany as there was still this great wall thingy to be gotten past). I remember how much I enjoyed writing to all these people.
We eventually stopped writing for what ever reasons – I suspect we all grew up and got busy. But one I kept in contact with after school was Monica in Mexico. But when they had that huge earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, I never heard from her again. I often comforted myself just imagining that she lost my address in the confusion. But I was never able to find out. Still haunts me all these years later.
But the addresses were different than up here in Canada or in the US. They would be more descriptive ie: “The white house on the corner…” and I imagined that the white house or whatever the descriptive land mark was might have been destroyed, which is why I never heard back.
So letters are still very precious. But in these days of instant communication, I feel like something was lost from those old pen-pal days of writing a friend of a friend who then became your friend too.
I had penpals in school. I had one in India, a couple in New Zealand, one in Mexico and one on Germany (West Germany as there was still this great wall thingy to be gotten past). I remember how much I enjoyed writing to all these people.
We eventually stopped writing for what ever reasons – I suspect we all grew up and got busy. But one I kept in contact with after school was Monica in Mexico. But when they had that huge earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, I never heard from her again. I often comforted myself just imagining that she lost my address in the confusion. But I was never able to find out. Still haunts me all these years later.
But the addresses were different than up here in Canada or in the US. They would be more descriptive ie: “The white house on the corner…” and I imagined that the white house or whatever the descriptive land mark was might have been destroyed, which is why I never heard back.
So letters are still very precious. But in these days of instant communication, I feel like something was lost from those old pen-pal days of writing a friend of a friend who then became your friend too.
I had penpals in school. I had one in India, a couple in New Zealand, one in Mexico and one on Germany (West Germany as there was still this great wall thingy to be gotten past). I remember how much I enjoyed writing to all these people.
We eventually stopped writing for what ever reasons – I suspect we all grew up and got busy. But one I kept in contact with after school was Monica in Mexico. But when they had that huge earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, I never heard from her again. I often comforted myself just imagining that she lost my address in the confusion. But I was never able to find out. Still haunts me all these years later.
But the addresses were different than up here in Canada or in the US. They would be more descriptive ie: “The white house on the corner…” and I imagined that the white house or whatever the descriptive land mark was might have been destroyed, which is why I never heard back.
So letters are still very precious. But in these days of instant communication, I feel like something was lost from those old pen-pal days of writing a friend of a friend who then became your friend too.
Wonderful post and links. Thank you. I received two boxes in the mail a few years ago from the Aunt that had cleared out all of my grandparents personal papers following their deaths in the 1992. They contained every letter my grandparents had received from my father, my sister, my prolific letter writing mother, and myself. She had also kept envelopes and cards. It is an amazing gift that I am slowly organizing in chronological order.
Wonderful post and links. Thank you. I received two boxes in the mail a few years ago from the Aunt that had cleared out all of my grandparents personal papers following their deaths in the 1992. They contained every letter my grandparents had received from my father, my sister, my prolific letter writing mother, and myself. She had also kept envelopes and cards. It is an amazing gift that I am slowly organizing in chronological order.
Wonderful post and links. Thank you. I received two boxes in the mail a few years ago from the Aunt that had cleared out all of my grandparents personal papers following their deaths in the 1992. They contained every letter my grandparents had received from my father, my sister, my prolific letter writing mother, and myself. She had also kept envelopes and cards. It is an amazing gift that I am slowly organizing in chronological order.
Wonderful post and links. Thank you. I received two boxes in the mail a few years ago from the Aunt that had cleared out all of my grandparents personal papers following their deaths in the 1992. They contained every letter my grandparents had received from my father, my sister, my prolific letter writing mother, and myself. She had also kept envelopes and cards. It is an amazing gift that I am slowly organizing in chronological order.
Wonderful post and links. Thank you. I received two boxes in the mail a few years ago from the Aunt that had cleared out all of my grandparents personal papers following their deaths in the 1992. They contained every letter my grandparents had received from my father, my sister, my prolific letter writing mother, and myself. She had also kept envelopes and cards. It is an amazing gift that I am slowly organizing in chronological order.
Thank you. 🙂 Post is still so hit-and-miss, even in 2017…
The worst “postal nightmare” I’ve ever had was when I was living in Seoul (South Korea) and my mother sent me a postcard that ended up in Pyongyang (North Korea!) for six months before I received it!
But – hey – at least I got it!
Thank you. 🙂 Post is still so hit-and-miss, even in 2017…
The worst “postal nightmare” I’ve ever had was when I was living in Seoul (South Korea) and my mother sent me a postcard that ended up in Pyongyang (North Korea!) for six months before I received it!
But – hey – at least I got it!
Thank you. 🙂 Post is still so hit-and-miss, even in 2017…
The worst “postal nightmare” I’ve ever had was when I was living in Seoul (South Korea) and my mother sent me a postcard that ended up in Pyongyang (North Korea!) for six months before I received it!
But – hey – at least I got it!
Thank you. 🙂 Post is still so hit-and-miss, even in 2017…
The worst “postal nightmare” I’ve ever had was when I was living in Seoul (South Korea) and my mother sent me a postcard that ended up in Pyongyang (North Korea!) for six months before I received it!
But – hey – at least I got it!
Thank you. 🙂 Post is still so hit-and-miss, even in 2017…
The worst “postal nightmare” I’ve ever had was when I was living in Seoul (South Korea) and my mother sent me a postcard that ended up in Pyongyang (North Korea!) for six months before I received it!
But – hey – at least I got it!
So sorry I’m late to comment here. I just loved the subject and information of this post, thank you! And the question at the end is very near and dear to my heart! I rarely write letters, although I still have one old friend who doesn’t do texting and emailing is especially difficult for her. After all these years my handwriting has really deteriorated and I’m embarrassed when I look at it. Out of practice? So I type my letters on the computer.
I still have a lot…I mean A LOT!…of lovely stationery I haven’t been able to part with, which is so silly. It was a favorite indulgence ever since I was in High School.
When our son went off to college I thanked God for email. And I love the immediacy of texting. However, I wrote thousands of letters over the years to friends and family after we had moved away from our home state.
I really related to so many of the other comments. Pretty stationery…check. Commemorative stamps…..check. Treasured keepsake letters from dearly departed…check.
So sorry I’m late to comment here. I just loved the subject and information of this post, thank you! And the question at the end is very near and dear to my heart! I rarely write letters, although I still have one old friend who doesn’t do texting and emailing is especially difficult for her. After all these years my handwriting has really deteriorated and I’m embarrassed when I look at it. Out of practice? So I type my letters on the computer.
I still have a lot…I mean A LOT!…of lovely stationery I haven’t been able to part with, which is so silly. It was a favorite indulgence ever since I was in High School.
When our son went off to college I thanked God for email. And I love the immediacy of texting. However, I wrote thousands of letters over the years to friends and family after we had moved away from our home state.
I really related to so many of the other comments. Pretty stationery…check. Commemorative stamps…..check. Treasured keepsake letters from dearly departed…check.
So sorry I’m late to comment here. I just loved the subject and information of this post, thank you! And the question at the end is very near and dear to my heart! I rarely write letters, although I still have one old friend who doesn’t do texting and emailing is especially difficult for her. After all these years my handwriting has really deteriorated and I’m embarrassed when I look at it. Out of practice? So I type my letters on the computer.
I still have a lot…I mean A LOT!…of lovely stationery I haven’t been able to part with, which is so silly. It was a favorite indulgence ever since I was in High School.
When our son went off to college I thanked God for email. And I love the immediacy of texting. However, I wrote thousands of letters over the years to friends and family after we had moved away from our home state.
I really related to so many of the other comments. Pretty stationery…check. Commemorative stamps…..check. Treasured keepsake letters from dearly departed…check.
So sorry I’m late to comment here. I just loved the subject and information of this post, thank you! And the question at the end is very near and dear to my heart! I rarely write letters, although I still have one old friend who doesn’t do texting and emailing is especially difficult for her. After all these years my handwriting has really deteriorated and I’m embarrassed when I look at it. Out of practice? So I type my letters on the computer.
I still have a lot…I mean A LOT!…of lovely stationery I haven’t been able to part with, which is so silly. It was a favorite indulgence ever since I was in High School.
When our son went off to college I thanked God for email. And I love the immediacy of texting. However, I wrote thousands of letters over the years to friends and family after we had moved away from our home state.
I really related to so many of the other comments. Pretty stationery…check. Commemorative stamps…..check. Treasured keepsake letters from dearly departed…check.
So sorry I’m late to comment here. I just loved the subject and information of this post, thank you! And the question at the end is very near and dear to my heart! I rarely write letters, although I still have one old friend who doesn’t do texting and emailing is especially difficult for her. After all these years my handwriting has really deteriorated and I’m embarrassed when I look at it. Out of practice? So I type my letters on the computer.
I still have a lot…I mean A LOT!…of lovely stationery I haven’t been able to part with, which is so silly. It was a favorite indulgence ever since I was in High School.
When our son went off to college I thanked God for email. And I love the immediacy of texting. However, I wrote thousands of letters over the years to friends and family after we had moved away from our home state.
I really related to so many of the other comments. Pretty stationery…check. Commemorative stamps…..check. Treasured keepsake letters from dearly departed…check.
I have made my insatiable passion for beautiful letters into a small business. Fine ink and paper has literally taken over my life. I think that beautiful letters have increasing appeal within a world of computers and apathy.
Specifically, I write letters authentic to the Regency period for my clients: usually to mark birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, notable events and, of course, plain old love letters. All you need to do is tell me what you want me to write, and I’ll make you something beautiful.
http://www.duckettcalligraphy.com/regency-letters/4593301143
I have made my insatiable passion for beautiful letters into a small business. Fine ink and paper has literally taken over my life. I think that beautiful letters have increasing appeal within a world of computers and apathy.
Specifically, I write letters authentic to the Regency period for my clients: usually to mark birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, notable events and, of course, plain old love letters. All you need to do is tell me what you want me to write, and I’ll make you something beautiful.
http://www.duckettcalligraphy.com/regency-letters/4593301143
I have made my insatiable passion for beautiful letters into a small business. Fine ink and paper has literally taken over my life. I think that beautiful letters have increasing appeal within a world of computers and apathy.
Specifically, I write letters authentic to the Regency period for my clients: usually to mark birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, notable events and, of course, plain old love letters. All you need to do is tell me what you want me to write, and I’ll make you something beautiful.
http://www.duckettcalligraphy.com/regency-letters/4593301143
I have made my insatiable passion for beautiful letters into a small business. Fine ink and paper has literally taken over my life. I think that beautiful letters have increasing appeal within a world of computers and apathy.
Specifically, I write letters authentic to the Regency period for my clients: usually to mark birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, notable events and, of course, plain old love letters. All you need to do is tell me what you want me to write, and I’ll make you something beautiful.
http://www.duckettcalligraphy.com/regency-letters/4593301143
I have made my insatiable passion for beautiful letters into a small business. Fine ink and paper has literally taken over my life. I think that beautiful letters have increasing appeal within a world of computers and apathy.
Specifically, I write letters authentic to the Regency period for my clients: usually to mark birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, notable events and, of course, plain old love letters. All you need to do is tell me what you want me to write, and I’ll make you something beautiful.
http://www.duckettcalligraphy.com/regency-letters/4593301143