#WorldLetterWritingDay is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 42 people shared 61 posts with it — around 2 a day. The busiest day was Sep 1 with 58 posts.

Posts with #WorldLetterWritingDay

University of Stirling Archives

@unistirarchives.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive collections.stir.ac.uk/co…. #CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

about 1 year ago

Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution… —Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791) #WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th news.lettersofnote.com/p/….

Ellisland, 1791

Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus.

R.B.

Robert Burns | Letter to a critic, 1791 | The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4

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Louvain Rees ⚰️

@hellohistoria.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

#WorldLetterWritingDay ✒️ Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌 Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻 hellohistoria.substack.co…. #Wales #History

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'My dearest Sarah' | A Bridgend Love Letter.

While going through the National Museum of Wales Collections, I came across a love-letter.

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Edith Hall

@edithmayhall.bsky.social

20 days ago

On #WorldLetterWritingDay a shopping list sent by Heraclides to his brother Petechois in the third century CE in Greco-Roman Egypt – poultry, bread, lupines, chick peas, kidney beans and fenugreek for supper please.

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society

@letterappsoc.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Got out the A4 Basildon Bond writing paper especially for today! And remember if you still want to be a part of #WorldLetterWritingDay, the night is still young! 😄✍️✉️🎉

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University of Exeter Special Collections

@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social

20 days ago

On World Letter Writing Day, we're sharing our love for letters, one of the most popular formats in archives 💌 Did you know we hold letters from writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats, environmentalists - & more! #WorldLetterWritingDay #Archive

Four envelopes from the Syon Abbey archive addressed to the Lady Abbess of Syon Abbey

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Myriah Williams

@myriahwilliams.bsky.social

20 days ago

annerch a chariad at vy anhrydyddusaf gar "greetings and affection to my most honourable kinsman" A note between friends? Written in a margin of the Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW Peniarth MS 1) in the 14th/15th century, erased probably in the 17th, recovered in the 21st. #WorldLetterWritingDay

A drawing of two people looking at each other in the bottom of a page (NLW Peniarth MS 1, fol. 39v), with text written above them. The drawing and text was erased and subsequently recovered with multispectral imaging.

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society

@letterappsoc.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay, people! I know technically every day is a letter writing day, but let’s join forces and all write one today. Someone out there will really appreciate getting yours even if they had no idea they would. It’s like sending happiness into the future. 🌏💌

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱

@theunhurriedreader.bsky.social

20 days ago

When I posted this yesterday, I was simply feeling nostalgic and had no idea that today, 1 September, would be #WorldLetterWritingDay ...

The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social

'Five hundred million letters every year.' #NightMail youtu.be/qLkvPG-iYHM?...

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RCPSG Heritage

@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

For #WorldLetterWritingDay here's a lovely note from a patient to surgeon William Macewen, thanking him for saving his life after a gunshot wound. Check out the signature too!

First page of a handwritten letter beginning "I assure you it is no easy matter for me to express how truly grateful I am..."

Second page of letter with a fancy signature at the bottom of the page

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Alice Thornton's Books

@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social

20 days ago

Its #WorldLetterWritingDay! Alice Thornton frequently communicated by letter and we have been able to trace 25 of her holograph letters (and one copy), with the latest written only a year or two before her death. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/po….

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Finding Alice Thornton's Letters

Blog article - 1 September 2023

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University of Exeter Special Collections

@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

It's World Letter Writing Day! We look after letters from many enthusiastic correspondents, incl. writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats & environmentalists. Search our archives here! ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk #WorldLetterWritingDay #Archives