{"id":506,"date":"2011-02-15T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T07:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2016-12-19T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:25:34","slug":"letters-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/letters-of-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One very nice (and unexpected) result of becoming a published writer has been that I now receive letters from readers. Yes, actual <em>letters<\/em>, written in pen or pencil on pieces of paper, sealed inside fancy envelopes and delivered by my friendly postie. Of course, it&#8217;s lovely to receive readers&#8217; e-mails, too, and I must admit it&#8217;s much easier and quicker to reply to e-mails \u2013 but there&#8217;s something special about a personal letter, perhaps because they&#8217;re so rare now. When I open my letter box these days, I generally find electricity bills and reminders about dental appointments and pamphlets from politicians who are desperately seeking my vote in the upcoming State election \u2013 but hardly ever do I receive <em>letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/letters-of-note\/letter-writing-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-508\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/letter-writing-300x202.png\" alt=\"The lost art of letter writing\" title=\"The lost art of letter writing\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/letter-writing-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/letter-writing.png 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s why I so enjoy browsing through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\">Letters of Note<\/a>, an on-line collection of letters to and from famous people. It includes adorable letters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/11\/there-will-be-seven-harry-potter-books.html\">J. K. Rowling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/12\/you-gave-me-valuable-gift-you-took-me.html\">Dr Seuss<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/12\/my-real-name-is-david-jones.html\">David Bowie<\/a> to fans; an indignant letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/11\/you-must-have-wrong-author.html\">Enid Blyton to Robert Menzies<\/a> demanding that he stop calling her books &#8216;immoral&#8217;; a completely illegible letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/12\/written-with-hand-of-him-who-wishes-he.html\">King Henry the Eighth to Anne Boleyn<\/a>; a hilarious &#8216;personal letter&#8217; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/06\/personal-letter-from-steve-martin.html\">Steve Martin<\/a>; a letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/10\/and-dont-get-me-started-on-scoutmasters.html\">an exasperated schoolboy to President John F. Kennedy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/p\/archive.html\">much, much more<\/a>. Go and have a look, it&#8217;s fascinating. It&#8217;s like finding a dusty box of letters in your attic &#8211; assuming you&#8217;d lived the same house as Albert Einstein, Yoko Ono, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and Freddie Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. As much as I adore receiving letters, I can&#8217;t answer them unless they include a return address. Harriet, thank you so much for your lovely letter, but you forgot to include your address. If you <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/contact.html\">contact me by e-mail or post<\/a>, I promise I will write back.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One very nice (and unexpected) result of becoming a published writer has been that I now receive letters from readers. Yes, actual letters, written in pen or pencil on pieces of paper, sealed inside fancy envelopes and delivered by my friendly postie. Of course, it&#8217;s lovely to receive readers&#8217; e-mails, too, and I must admit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/letters-of-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letters of Note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,144],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-writing-life","tag-enid-blyton","tag-j-k-rowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}