July 14, 2009
Leeds-based author Adam Christie unearthed the findings while researching Take A Letter; a celebration of correspondence personal and professional, due to be published in October.
As well as examining the therapeutic benefits of letters, Adam Christie also considers their place in affecting political decisions and how letters to newspapers can reflect the vibrancy and priorities of the world's villages and towns, cities and nations.
'Sending text messages and social networking may be popular with today's younger people,' said Adam, 'but unless their elders encourage them to slow down and write more slowly and at greater length, generations will deprive themselves of some of the most important historical records of their time.
'I've been a letter writer as long as I can remember and, a couple of years ago, I felt that I was insulting my friends by sending them brief, impersonal e-mail messages rather than spending more time respecting people who are important in my life, so I went back to proper, longer letters.
'It's also a pity that when so many people could benefit so much from letter-writing, the hard pressed Royal Mail does so little to encourage an activity that would help their business too,' added Adam.
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