TAKE A LETTER is the latest book from Modus Operandi - ISBN 978 1 873031 315.
Author Adam Christie celebrates 'correspondence personal and professional', by considering such topics as his own childhood introduction to letter writing at prep school in the 1960s and the role of family rituals in establishing the letter-writing habit.
He also considers the role of letters in newspapers, having spoken to the doyen of UK letters pages Keith Flett and the letters page editor of the Manchester Evening News, Judy Gordon.
He concludes by considering the health benefits of letter-writing, its place in today's business world and reveals where mail is delivered by mule and where there is a post office built of straw.
"How lovely to get a proper handwritten note for a change; made me all nostalgic ..."
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Take a Letter
... a celebration of correspondence personal and professional
Take a Letter will be available in October 2009, price £9.99.
Adam considers how politicians and parliamentarians respond to correspondence and considers the relative influence of rushed e-mail messages compared to well-argued letters.
"What a delightful book; lucid, entertaining and apposite, it combines a traditional essayist's elegance with a sharp analysis of modern communications ... "
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