Comments on: The Art of Letter Writing

By: Tit

Tit — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:29 +0000

My girlfriend is leaving for a few months, so i’ll suggest we try this. It looks quite magical.

Btw, great site! Keep it up!

By: Samir

Samir — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:10:53 +0000

I have a fountain pen and all of the materials but I have nobody to write to!

By: Robert Gunnoe

Robert Gunnoe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:55:53 +0000

I am inspired to write more and to improve my use of ink pens in creating personal correspondence. I read this morning that no one is commenting much on the fact that the postal service will no longer be delivering mail on Saturdays, because, “no one writes letters anymore. ” What a shame.

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GMI Biomed Insights » 7 Lessons in Manliness From the Greatest Generation — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:17:24 +0000

[...] husband constantly in her thoughts while he was away. “I never went to sleep until I wrote John a letter. I wrote every single day. I wouldn’t break the routine because I thought it would keep him [...]

By: Harrison Moore

Harrison Moore — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:25:06 +0000

Hello everyone, I am an artist working in London and I am looking for people to take part in my social art project, it is all about writing letters. I saw this thread and couldn’t resist leaving a comment. Below is a link to my group where you can download the brief:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/482550538445298/

I do hope you can take a look, perhaps you can even take part yourselves and tell your friends, it would mean a lot. Thank you for your time, kindest regards.
Harrison Moore

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:52:52 +0000

I had a professor in college that made us hand write and mail one personal letter every Friday. I don’t remember the specific criteria, but most of them were written to people who’d had previously had a positive impact on our lives. It had nothing to do with the class. He was just trying to make us better people. I unfortunately did not keep the habit, but that was almost 20 years ago and still have people mention those letters occasionally.

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[...] their eyes and wondering how many days it will be before I’m back on, maybe I’ll send them an actual hand-written letter in the mail. Won’t that be [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:19:33 +0000

My goodness The Post Office should hire you as PR. You make letter writting sound like it may just be as fun and cool as playing the Wii. I was inclined to visit your site after getting Jenny’s email from sublime stitching. The two of you Rock and I totally get why you two would get along. The both of you are taking traditions ( that were taken as everyday normal ) and are doing an awsome job of making them Bi**ch’n again. Rock on.

yours truly (and all that jazz),
Erica

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:04:15 +0000

This is genius,
I came upon such a notion when I was in high school years ago; and would write both letters and post cards to girls I liked. And found one day when I’d returned from a short trip that those members of my class previously written were saddened ( and expectant) that my travel had not warranted writing them as was known to be my custom.
And when I would court a girl, did not merely write “notes” as the standard for my generation; having missed “text messaging” narrowly. But instead with fountain pen and calligraphy that now even after a decade some times it is recalled by those who I haven’t seen in years passed that I was well regarded for my putting ink to paper.
Both family and friends / girlfriends kept some sort of value based on the longer a letter I could produce to them ( I later found out ) and that the longer the letters became the higher my reputation grew. Also finding that if you write the way you talk it is received all the greater by your reads. They’ll say “It’s like, I could totally hear you saying that! Just like you were standing here telling me about it…,”
And that I think is when we’ve done our job best.
Thanks for writing these great sections !

By: Paul K

Paul K — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:21:47 +0000

I could not agree more that letter writing is a good thing. Apart from the natural intimacy of a letter it affirms one’s true friendship with the correspondent. In order to write real letters to each other you have to share that most intimate detail – your address. How many people who claim hundreds of Facebook friends would dream of giving more than a handful of them their actual address?
Personally I find that email and the internet has achieved the sublime result of ridding my letterbox of brown envelopes and bills so I can genuinely look forward to the thump of a letter on the mat knowing it is almost certainly something to give pleasure.