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  • There is a frequently expressed fear that letter writing is an art of the past; that the intervention of the stenographer has destroyed its spontaneity; yet it is evident that in Page the present generation has a letter writer of the old-fashioned kind, for he did all his writing with his own hand and under circumstances that would assure the utmost freshness and vividness to the result. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
  • Needless to add that the anonymous letter writer was a woman—a foreign lady of title—who for a time was one of the most admired beauties at the Court of Berlin, where, thanks to her inimitable chic, elegance and brilliancy of wit, everybody, men and women alike, were charmed. —  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I
  • Umlaut wondered how she knew the letter writer was female, but he didn't ask. —  Up In A Heaval
  • Nothing, therefore, could be more congenial to him than to fill the post of London letter writer to that paper. —  The Life Story of an Old Rebel
  • The letter writer said something to the effect that if more people knew what a fisherman had to put up with, well, maybe they and the politicians they elected would be a bit smarter. —  AHMM,March2008
 

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