Letters

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Letters

Writing letters requires a number of basic skills.


These include writing, intelligence and imagination, none of which I appeared to have mastered when I rediscovered a pile of 50-year-old letters sent home to my parents from boarding school.

Letter writing is a dying art. The ones I found suggest that the art died long ago.


If you're going to write a letter, make sure it's worthwhile because what you record on paper endures.


It's there for ever, or at least until the recipient throws it out - or dies, at which point you may rediscover it and, if you're like me, cringe.