The letters show mutual trust and respect, but never a hint of nostalgia over any past discreet liaison between the two. Van Vechten felt that blacks should climb to fame “with material which is the ...
The Brienne trunk is a 17th-century trunk of letters bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum in The Hague. The trunk belonged to one of the most active postmaster and postmistress of the day, Simon and ...
Before the invention of sealed envelopes, how did one insure the privacy of sensitive correspondence? A Live Science report explains that for centuries the method used to avert “prying eyes” was a ...
A new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse at correspondences four centuries old. "Letter Writing in Renaissance England," which runs through April 2005, ...
Before the invention of sealed envelopes, how did one insure the privacy of sensitive correspondence? A Live Science report explains that for centuries the method used to avert “prying eyes” was a ...
In an early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of ...
An unopened letter that was mailed back in 1697 but never delivered has been read by researchers who have developed a way to virtually "unfold" sealed letter packets without having to actually break ...
Unlike rotary-dial telephones and Hula-Hoops, handwritten letters — words on paper missives — are enjoying a renaissance of sorts. Back in the day, one of the three Rs — writing — taught students how ...
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