People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children : a Domestic Biography (ed. University of Georgia Press, 1993) - ISBN: 9780820314808