The Art Of Letter-Writing Isn't Lost On These Scribblers A few determined people are doing their best to keep letters arriving in U.S. mailboxes. One Michigan woman writes up to 60 letters a week ...

Many hold onto a dying art - letter writing For some, though, pen and paper not part of past. Jeff Brumley. My dearest reader - ...

Letter writing is a dying art. One piece of mail in the auction “features faded red fountain pen looping across an envelope mailed in 1833 from Chicago to Connecticut,” the newspaper reported.

These diverse honors make Kantor a three-letter man in U.S. painting, but not necessarily an All-American; they are as much a tribute to the diversity as to the quality of his art.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office Department had been delivering about five letters per capita annually. During the war, the average soldier sent more than five times that many.