It has apparently been dying ever since". In an affectionate piece in praise of the letter, Simon Garfield argues that there has been a contemporary flowering of letters with compendiums from writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, PG Wodehouse and Ernest Hemingway, as well as the popularity of addictive sites such as Letters of Note, and events such as Women of Letters.
5.37am BST Letters of note.
That correspondence is preserved in the Letters of Note project.
Thinking of downloading Christmas smash hit Letters of Note?
Letters of Note is published by Canongate (£16.99).
Letters are portable, More Letters of Note not so much.
Many similar letters are delightfully preserved on Shaun Usher's Letters of Note website.
"A legitimate form of snooping" is how Usher explains the appeal of Letters of Note.
Usher's missive is an introduction to readers of his new book Letters of Note.
Letters from Letters of Note, written by (from left to right) Annie Oakley, Elvis Presley, and Jack the Ripper.
The two federal campaign directors could be launching a pitch to have their correspondence recorded in letters of note.
