Recently, I was going through some storage boxes containing old papers and documents left behind by my mother, who passed away a few years ago. I came across a bundle of letters that were tied ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Katherine Gale compiled this month’s selections.

Emails, WhatsApp messages, Teams chats, social media posts - we're certainly no strangers to communicating in a digital world. But how often do we put pen to paper? In the hope of reviving the lost ...

Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. So it is for Emil J. Polak as he strides into the Bibliothèque Méjanes here. It is the 728th library -- nearly all of them in Europe -- that ...

The first thing to know is that J. André Smith and Mary Curtis Bok were friends. Great friends. The second thing to know is that they wrote letters. Lots of letters. Those facts have unlocked the ...

LETTER-WRITING is commonly bemoaned as a lost art, for which explanations abound. Where people once wrote letters, they now make long-distance calls. Press, radio, and television now broadcast news ...

PROF. SMITH'S Open Letter is one of those delightful attempts to place before a brother professor a little of the knowledge which, although belonging more properly to the sphere of the writer's ...

Emailing, tweeting, texting — 20 years ago, these things were unheard of. Now, we can’t live without them. Although the advances in technology are amazing, we can lose some things along the way, as ...