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the slow art of saying something worth waiting a week to read
means The practice of composing messages by hand or in writing to be sent to another person, especially as a deliberate, personal form of correspondence.
from Both halves come straight from Old English: "letter" arrived via Old French "lettre" from Latin "littera," meaning a written character or, in the plural, an epistle — the same root that gives us "literature" and "literacy." "Writing" descends from Old English "writan," which originally meant to scratch or incise — fitting for an age when words were carved into wood or stone before they were ever inked onto parchment. So "letter writing" is, at its root, the scratching-out of shapes that stand for sounds and sent across distance.
- oldest letter
- clay tablets carried complaints over 4,000 years ago
- escargot etymology
- snail mail entered dictionaries by the 1980s
- royal mail
- penny post in 1840 made writing affordable for all
- napoleon's secret
- he wrote thousands, many never sent to josephine
- dead letters
- undeliverable mail funds its own US office
screwtape letters — 1941 novel by c.s. lewis structured as letters from a senior demon to his apprentice about corrupting humans
love letters of napoleon — passionate handwritten letters napoleon sent to josephine during the italian campaign in 1796