Hannah Nicklin, the lovely English playwright, wants to write more letters. Through her I recently discovered the web site postletters.org — “a UK-based, worldwide movement to encourage, promote and take delight in the activity of writing letters and sending post.”

If you go over to the site you can request to join the movement and at some time in the future you will be sent an interesting missive that will hopefully inspire you to write more letters. In fact, that’s the whole purpose of the web site — to get you fired up and get to writing.

Zip over there ASAP and enjoy yourself. Support the movement! Support letter writing!

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I think this might be a first. The composer Brett Dean has created a violin concerto called The Lost Art of Letter Writing. He, like all of us, lament that letter writing is less-and-less a part of our daily lives. This concerto utilizes real letters which are read and integrated into the beginning of each movement.

You can read more about it at the Boosey & Hawkes web site At the bottom is a link that says “audio/visual”. You can click that to go to a page that has a sample of the concerto.

Photo credit: Kaitlin M.

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