Repost from our friend Yanik Silver: Let’s face it, in today’s digitally wired society there seems to be a slippery slope of what passes for meaningful communication. Look, I’m as guilty as anyone. Actually, I used text to give condolences on a friend’s loss of her father recently. I can do better. Going beyond a …
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A Charming Correspondent: Alexander Graham Bell
The letter below is a note that Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his wife, Mabel Hubbard Bell, on November 14th, 1878. The letter begins with “My sweet darling wife: I wish I could only have you and baby with me,” (Library of Congress). A few paragraphs down he alludes to a bureau that is filled …