Famous Love Letters: Includes Napoleon, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Samuel Clemens, Honore de Balzac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more.
“Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing” by Charles Dodgson
Emily Post on Longer Letters: “The art of general letter-writing in the present day is shrinking until the letter threatens to become a telegram, a telephone message, a post-card. Since the events of the day are transmitted in newspapers with far greater accuracy, detail, and dispatch than they could be by the single effort of even Voltaire himself, the circulation of general news, which formed the chief reason for letters of the stage-coach and sailing-vessel days, has no part in the correspondence of to-day.”
Literary notes
Many of the texts up for Hugo award this years are available on-line (via Boing Boing). Comic book artist Dame…