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Arts & Humanities - Norman Mailer

The art of the letter
By Elana Estrin
Published: Aug. 17, 2011

A letter’s illustrations can be revealing. The Harry Ransom Center shares how letterheads, sketches and stamps speak volumes about letter writers.
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- Suzanne P Smith said on Aug. 31, 2011 at 8:53 p.m.
  Will the fine, lost art of letter writing ever resurface like fashion or has it been eternally replaced by texting and tweeting. Do we really we call that communication???
- Tom Palaima said on Aug. 25, 2011 at 1:24 p.m.
  Another extraordinary exhibition at the HRC. Thank you.
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