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I’m on BH on BBCRadio4 after 9 talking with Paddy O’Connell about the lost art of letter writing and the huge collection of letters my mum left behind
Enjoyed your piece. As someone who uses the full 160 characters on a text and 280 unicode-characters on a tweet.
I can relate to the richness of times when verbosity was an assurance of due attention. Rather than of being expecting, unconcise or off-point.
I fear that there may be many who would still write in longform but many fewer with the patience to absorb it on receipt. Even fewer whom would take the time to reply, point by point.
Golden moment of BH radio.
Thank-you.
-Richard
@RoryCJ
I still love reading the letters from my Aunty Sheila who, when she ran out of paper, would write around the edges of the paper and sign off with tiny Lilliputian kisses.
When she moved over to email the messages randomly lacked punctuation and occasionally WENT INTO UnCoNTROLLED CAPS or italics, both of which were a mystery to her 
So her messages were just as amusing in pen or email as she was in real life 
@RoryCJ For anyone who missed this - here's the link to BBC Sounds...
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@TheStephenRalph @RoryCJ I’ve got a huge bank of letters (300) that my Dad wrote to my Mum during WWII. He was a 20 year old sent out the North Africa as part of the 1st Army (a driver in the RASC) & my Mum was a 19 year old in the ATS in the Intelligence Corp at Bletchley Park. During the time he wrote to her (some to the ‘secret’ address) she went from a Private to a Lance then full Corporal in the Japanese cipher section. He wrote twice a week. There’s a book in there!
@RoryCJ 2023 will be my 10th journal (annually) using a fountain pen.. Love writing..
@RoryCJ As a young child I would watch my mum writing letters back to India on those blue airmail envelopes that you just folded up, sealed, and sent. Seems such an exotic form of communication looking back.