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		<title>12th Century Italian Love-Letter-Writing Manual</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforletters.com/2009/02/medieval-love-letter-handbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t find this in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, but better late than never, I guess!
Check out this article on a handbook from the 12th century for how to write love letters.  I think it would be fun to try some of these.  Maybe if you start practicing now you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 64-Year Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of a round robin letter?  I have never done one, but I have heard of them.  
It&#8217;s a letter where you have a group of people and you basically write letters in a circle &#8212; Person 1 sends her letter to Person 2.  That person writes a letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hemingway Letters Unveiled</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found an article about 3,000 letters and other writings of Hemingway that has been in a museum in Cuba. 
The release of the Hemingway archive is part of a joint project between the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and the US Social Science Research Council.
As Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of the revolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spitball Army</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforletters.com/2009/01/spitball-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred over at Spitball Army has a lovely letter project going on.
He has a collection of letters he has transcribed from a couple called Bev and Ande who correspond during the early days of the war.  Fred does an awesome job of transcribing for ease of reading, but also includes scans of the letters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe Lincoln Letter Found?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite letters of all time is the letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, the mother of five sons who were in the Civil War.  You might know this letter from a scene from the movie Saving Private Ryan and handled in such a moving way in the film.
Recently, a copy [...]]]></description>
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