Other family members and friends told the children they had also preserved letters.
Volume II of the biography, especially, is enlivened by cantankerous outbursts against long-dead Melvilles who failed to preserve letters, or librarians who neglected their collections; you get the impression that the really wicked feature of Sherman's march through the towns of the defeated South was the destruction of newspaper files which might have contained mentions of Melville.
It is generally agreed, however, that "Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style".
Mother's Day is a time when many of us bring out our keepsakes -- cherished family photos, carefully preserved letters, perhaps a ring or a necklace that's been handed down over the years.
He was also an active letter-writer, corresponding with contemporaries high and low, famous and obscure, and carefully preserving his letters and publishing some of them since like his Roman models, he regarded the letter as an important literary genre.
Sabarmati Ashram and the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata, which has the papers of Subhas Chandra Bose, have digitized their collections, thereby preserving the letters of two of India's preeminent independence leaders.
Every divorced person has a different idea about what to do with mementos from former relationships, whether it's angrily trashing the wedding dress or nostalgically preserving love letters in a beribboned box under the bed.
A: Stephen Seldin, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said it was unlikely that anything other than neighborly persuasion would be able to preserve the letter writer's view.
To preserve the letter of the law, which requires six-day service, the agency would continue Saturday parcel delivery — a shrewd decision, since, thanks to booming e-commerce, the parcel business is one of the few sectors that is actually growing.
Malmö's City Archives still preserve the letter written April 23 , 1437by Eric, granting his own griffin head arms to the city.
