This tendency of humanity sometimes exercises and magnifies itself into really remarkable correspondences.
— George Saintsbury
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The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness has a basic web site whose Letter-writing Initiative page includes three patterns of stationery that you can download; you can buy special Love and Forgiveness stationery from Paper Source, which also gives workshops on letter-writing topics including calligraphy, mail art, and papermaking. During February there are selections of real letters on the Love and Forgiveness site; on February 10 they were from San Francisco high school students.
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If you have Adobe Reader you can view the tips from the press release printed in LEX. Lilia Fallgatter's book The Most Important Letter You Will Ever Write is available signed from her site, or from LEX's affiliate page at Powell's. In December, Wisconsin Public Radio's "Here on Earth" program featured the Campaign; you can listen to the program on their site. The first PBS special in the Campaign, "The Mystery of Love", has a web site. |
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The Jane Austen Society of North America is still going strong, conducting tours to England and facilitating discussions and essays. Some regional groups also sell Austen-related merchandise, including note cards. A short description by Steve of The Readers' League Catalogue of Correspondence, and a quote from a 1982 interview, can be seen on page 58 of the PDF version of the Summer 1983 issue of Connections; a web page version is also online. Opening Up: The Healing Power of Confiding in Others and SARK's Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder-Full Self! are available at Powell's. |
| Horace Walpole in The World of Letters |
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Volumes I and II of Letters of Horace Walpole, and Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 of The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford are available for free reading at Gutenberg. You can also buy numerous volumes of Walpole's letters at Powell's; several dozen volumes of Madame de Sévigné's letters are also available. Walpole's influential Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto is also available at Gutenberg and at Powell's.
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Walpole coined the term "serendipity", and is the author of the famous quote "Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel." (Various wordings of this quote are seen, as Walpole apparently used it more than once in his letters, although we've been unable to track down a specific instance.) Strawberry Hill passed through various branches of Walpole's family, including the Waldegraves, was briefly owned by an American hotel company, and eventually sold to the Catholic Education Council for use as St. Mary's College. The Friends of Strawberry Hill is currently raising money to restore the "little Gothic castle", as Walpole called it, which is being leased from St. Mary's. |
| The Graceful Envelope Contest |
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| Interested in the Graceful Envelope Contest? Here's the site with the details. You can also view winners for the past 6 years. Do you see any familiar names? Will there be any familiar names in the 2007 winners? Give it your best! | |
| LEX in the news |
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| You need to have a subscription to read Margaret Montet's article about Ghost Letters and LEX at The World & I's online site. Bonnie Jeanne's article is available for free viewing at Gather.com. | |
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