Comments on: The Art of Letter Writing: Stationery

By: Wasim

Wasim — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:37:18 +0000

I always wrote to my pen-pals (who sometimes would take months to reply)with paper I ripped out of a spiral-bound notebook.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:13:13 +0000

FWIW, my cheat for lined paper is to use a relatively thin, plain paper and a sheet underneath that I’ve lined in a fairly heavy black. Using a self-made line sheet also allows me to have custom rulings since I tend to write short notes at a roughly wide-rule spacing but long letters get narrow rule spacing. (1/4″, and near impossible to find in quality paper anyway.) It also lets me go to a new sheet without so much prep work as manually lining each page, and there’s no residue to erase.

By: Trev

Trev — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:48:58 +0000

If it helps anyone, found this great DIY design for at home relief print.

http://www.mossworks.com/docs/BottleJackPress.pdf

Not yet tested, but I surely intend to.

By: Samara

Samara — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:21:10 +0000

Hilary,

I have to disagree with you. According to Emily Post’s Etiquette, a single man’s initials should be listed as first, middle, last when the initials are the same size. The initials should be listed as first, last, middle when the center initial is larger.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:15:36 +0000

While I truly appreciate your instructional entries on letter writing (particularly the bit on Thank You Notes), I thought you might like to know that the stationary examples shown above do not properly display a male monogram. I suppose the manliness of a monogram in the first instance is debatable, although I do think it is an elegant touch on stationary. In any case, the correct format for a man’s monogram is First Initial, Middle, Last… all the same size. In the case of John Q. Smith, his monogram would read JQS.

By: R. Stanley

R. Stanley — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:56:02 +0000

Please note that Crane & Company and Stationery Studio are worthy sources of personalized stationery, and did deserve to be mentioned in the above discussion of personalized stationery. However, the thick cards offered at Giftsin24.com are of especially high quality. Please take a look at the Railroad Cards and Colonial Cards which are worthy of a man’s pen, are extra thick and reasonably priced.

By: Designed Personal Correspondence Card | Desmond Dispatch

Designed Personal Correspondence Card | Desmond Dispatch — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:40:53 +0000

[...] letters can be. Then, before I had actually gotten down to the business of writing, I read an article on the Art of Manliness which explained a few of the different types of stationary. On of these, [...]

By: Cicero Murdock

Cicero Murdock — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:37:17 +0000

I find most of my needs met with correspondence cards and monarch sheets. There’s a store in Augusta, GA that I get mine at. I buy plain 100% cotton sheets in boxes of 50 each, and they can be used for almost any occasion.

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:01:53 +0000

The are of letter writing is certainly falling away from society. As Sage said its taking a back seat to technology. Even the quality of email has gone down hill with thoughts and feelings reduced to emoticons and abbreviations, it makes me want to scream WTF! I fell into the habit of modern hieroglyphics for a while but now I’m back to writing proper letters right down to Dear_____ , along with indenting paragraphs. I also write thank you cards and send them out to clients and business associates. In this day and age people rarely get cards or letters let alone a “thankyou”. So I believe it sets me out from the competition. People have been reseptive and I know that even the ones how don’t say so, it means a great deal to them for me to have taken some time to write them. I fighting to bring back some of the fine things in life all while staying tech savvy. So there’s my two cents.

By: James Clark

James Clark — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:41:34 +0000

I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that style is unimportant. A man may make the suit, but you need a suit to make. It is much easier for a man to make a suit than for a man to make a sweat suit…

Also, I’d like to point out that regarding the letter versus e-mail debate, one must take into account that some of us might have handwriting deficiencies, and that in itself could cause frustrations for the sender and recipient (especially the writer, if you can’t read your own writing on Crane paper…)

A few lessons and a lot of practice in the art of handwriting (tangent: is cursive writing a lost art?) might be in order before placing the order for the stationary…

AND A TIP: if you use a 7 or 9h (drafting) pencil and a ruler, you can make the stationary lined, write on the lines with pen, and then genlty erase the lines. And since you used a 9H pencil, no-one will ever notice. They’ll be in awe of your perfectly straight writing – especially on heavy paper that you could not see through and put a lined paper behind it for shadow lines. anything darker than a 6H and you might be sorry, though – (and be gentle, please).