The Letter Exchange - Links Related to Issue 3

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Links related to Issue 3, Winter 2004
	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.	The original of the Rolling Stones' famous logo (page 4) can be seen at the Wikipedia article on the band. Like to make your own mail art? The stamp companies mentioned on page 9 don't appear to have current Web sites. but the Open Source project lists many sites for rubber stamp enthusiasts and hundreds of online stores. Fascinated with Lewis Carroll (page 10)? 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. Non Sequitur (page 13) sells unmounted rubber stamp sheets of both original designs and adaptations of existing designs. Family letters (page 15), an important source of information about the past, can be found on numerous sites, including historical societies, genealogical sites both general and family-specific, and blogs. Ancestry.com offers tips on the safe preservation of old letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Past Voices has an online collection of numerous letters written by soldiers to family members back home – note, however, that their site is rather confusing to use and much of it leads to Ancestry.com and other non-free sites. The cuneiform tablets on page 20 are from the Near East page of FreeStockPhotos, whose collection includes other examples of early stone writing. Want to see how a Babylonian would have written your monogram? The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has an interactive page that will show you. Wikipedia has articles on cuneiform writing and papyrus. You can buy designs on authentic (modern) papyrus at Natasha's Cafe, a kit to make your own papyrus at KingTutShop, or blank papyrus at Egyptian Dreams, among many other places. The book that the description of making papyrus is taken from (page 21) is difficult to find at bookstores, but can be found at some libraries. LEX is grateful for being featured on various subscribers' Web pages. Examples mentioned on page 29 include Stasia's Place of Grace, Zmrzlina's BookCrossing forum and journal, and Stephanie Zonis' Chocolate Lovers column at StarChefs.
	If you like the papyrus design on page 20, you might want to investigate the book it was taken from, Ancient Egyptian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople.
	Cuneiform writing began around 3000 BC and lasted for approximately 3000 years, being used in numerous languages throughout the Near East.
	You can make your own paper at home with a variety of books on the subject, or just read about the history of paper.
	Family letters (page 15) can be an important means of preserving and researching knowledge about the past, and along with journals may be among the best sources for learning what life was really like for the average person.
	From beginner's basics to advanced mixed media techniques, there are dozens of books on rubber stamping.
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