I credit my grandmother with the habit of letter writing. She insisted on "bread and butter notes" which were personal expressions of gratitude sent in the post for the smallest of kindnesses. This week I received two handwritten thank you notes. Each has penmanship that reflects their personality. Stationary products are my weakness along with books. Lovely post!
I love the idea of “bread and butter notes”. Thank you letters are very special, and require skill to write. But it helps if they are on lovely stationary - I have always adored stationary and pens!
What a beautiful piece—like receiving a handwritten letter in itself. I often write handwritten notes to parents, expressing how well their child is doing in class. The children try hard to get one of these and parents love opening them too. Takes about 2 minutes and is well worth the time.
Thank you for your comment. What a lovely idea to write notes about the children in your class. I am sure the parents, and then the children keep the notes for many years. It is also shows the children how powerful a handwritten note can be.
Thank you so much for the restack. I know what you mean. I love Jane Austen’s books, and have read her biographies, but another side of her comes out in her letters, and how others wrote to her.
I am impressed that not only do you keep paperwork, but you obviously file it efficiently so you can find it later. Do you remember autograph albums? Lots of people had them and all your family had to write something - leaving handwriting samples of the people we loved. Perhaps we should start that again!
I tend to hang onto paperwork much longer than anyone else, especially in my family. The upside is that in the last week I’ve located important family paperwork for siblings to get passports, prove the right to a lawsuit claim, and oh joy, find old letters in my father’s handwriting, who has long since passed.
You should maybe collect handwriting samples from everyone you love. Oh yeah, that used to be a thing…
I credit my grandmother with the habit of letter writing. She insisted on "bread and butter notes" which were personal expressions of gratitude sent in the post for the smallest of kindnesses. This week I received two handwritten thank you notes. Each has penmanship that reflects their personality. Stationary products are my weakness along with books. Lovely post!
I love the idea of “bread and butter notes”. Thank you letters are very special, and require skill to write. But it helps if they are on lovely stationary - I have always adored stationary and pens!
What a beautiful piece—like receiving a handwritten letter in itself. I often write handwritten notes to parents, expressing how well their child is doing in class. The children try hard to get one of these and parents love opening them too. Takes about 2 minutes and is well worth the time.
Thank you for your comment. What a lovely idea to write notes about the children in your class. I am sure the parents, and then the children keep the notes for many years. It is also shows the children how powerful a handwritten note can be.
Given my reading of letters to Thomas Cromwell at present, I loved this post. I feel I know him a bit better from his correspondents.
Thank you so much for the restack. I know what you mean. I love Jane Austen’s books, and have read her biographies, but another side of her comes out in her letters, and how others wrote to her.
I am impressed that not only do you keep paperwork, but you obviously file it efficiently so you can find it later. Do you remember autograph albums? Lots of people had them and all your family had to write something - leaving handwriting samples of the people we loved. Perhaps we should start that again!
I tend to hang onto paperwork much longer than anyone else, especially in my family. The upside is that in the last week I’ve located important family paperwork for siblings to get passports, prove the right to a lawsuit claim, and oh joy, find old letters in my father’s handwriting, who has long since passed.
You should maybe collect handwriting samples from everyone you love. Oh yeah, that used to be a thing…