Recently, I was going through some storage boxes containing old papers and documents left behind by my mother, who passed away a few years ago. I came across a bundle of letters that were tied ...

The first thing to know is that J. André Smith and Mary Curtis Bok were friends. Great friends. The second thing to know is that they wrote letters. Lots of letters. Those facts have unlocked the ...

Did you ever wonder what happened to those things you used to write and receive in the mail, those things called letters? Well, you wouldn't be wondering if you were friends with Jacksonville's Ruth ...

LETTER-WRITING is commonly bemoaned as a lost art, for which explanations abound. Where people once wrote letters, they now make long-distance calls. Press, radio, and television now broadcast news ...

T.S. Eliot once said about the correspondence of English Romantic poet John Keats, "His letters are what letters ought to be: the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, ...

Asking who designed Louis Comfort Tiffany’s iconic lamps might seem the decorative art world’s equivalent to the schoolyard stumper, “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?” While Ulysses S. Grant is indeed ...