Letter-writing

Letter-writing mavens in newspapers turned their attention away from simple epistolary etiquette and toward the more pressing problem of the letters one absolutely had to send.

The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

I have begun an article on "Letter-writing" ,7 which I am making as fantastical as I can.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Letter-writing manuals sprang up to allow the “middling sort” to “pursue their claims to social refinement and upward mobility,” as one scholar put it.

The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

Letter-writing campaign to the Mexican government.

Alas, a blog » 2006 » November 2006

Letter-writing campaign to the Mexican government.

The Oaxaca Uprising 2006

Letter-writing is, after all, a _pas seul_, as it were; the novice has no partner to teach him manners, or the figures of the dance, or to set his wits astir.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Letter-writing, however, especially if one does not write easily, is but a poor substitute for speech.

Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

Letter-writing is a subject of so varied and extensive a nature, that it can scarcely be reduced to rules or taught by precept; but some instructions respecting it may afford assistance in avoiding error, and obtaining a degree of excellence in this most important exercise.

The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

Letter-writing does not demand any gathering of material, gains much interest, and affords much latitude for individual tastes in topics and expression.

Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood

Letter-writing, however, being at best a perilous adventure, and reading a matter better left with those who can see some use in it, the town did not certainly know that it was implicated in the great war until the draft reached out for the whole two of their able-bodied young men.

The Politeness of Questa la Platta 1923