Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Horace Walpole's Letters: A Selection
IS letter writing, in the artistic sense, a lost ac complishment? There are plenty of people who would not linger long over a reply. It is Often asserted that Rowland Hill and the penny post killed the old - fashioned style of letter. That is not true, however, for it survived in Old fashioned hands into the mid - Victorian era, when it received its coup de grticg by the invention Of what our fathers, when in a superior mood, called that modern abomination, the ubiqui tous post-card. Correspondence has since its advent grown pithy, brisk, prosaic. The majority of men have not the time in this cast-iron, express-paced age, with its tele graphs and telephones, and constant business and social demands, for the Old elaborate letter of genial gossip and kindly compliment. Senti ment, some would even say, is at a discount, and whatever may be the cause, imagination and fancy, to say nothing of wit and humour, have grown curiously rare under a penny stamp. The world is too much with us now. Our interests are too many, our work too insistent.
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