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Links related to Issue 2, Autumn 2003        

According to the publisher, The Art of the Handwrittten Note features helpful tips for everything "from overcoming illegible penmanship to mastering the challenge of keeping straight margins, avoiding smeared ink, and choosing stationery that is appropriate but suits your style".
A close-up photo of the Denali Post Office (page 7) is at the National Park Service's Denali site.
 
If you enjoyed the column by Barbara Cloud on page 8, check out the archive of hundreds of her other columns. Thanks to Zmrzlina for connecting LEX to the Margaret Shepherd book The Art of the Handwritten Note on BookCrossing.com.
 
Here's an article about the closing of small post offices (see page 17) This is not just happening in the U.S.; similar moves are planned or occurring in Denmark, the U.K., Canada, Germany, and others.
 
Fascinated with Lewis Carroll (page 18)? You might want to check out the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, the Lewis Carroll pages at The Victorian Web, or the British Lewis Carroll Society. You can also make your head swim with the Gutenberg edition of Carroll's The Game of Logic.
 
If you like the rather serene-looking river post office on page 27, you might enjoy more pictures (scroll down) from the book, which is available in libraries. The complete book is also online at the Florida Heritage Collection site in the form of page-scans.
Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, is best known as the author of Alice in Wonderland, but he also carried on a voluminous correspondence, particularly with children, and was a well-known writer on logic, puzzles and mathematics.
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