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Other people's letters

25/10/2015

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Reading letters addressed to other people is like listening in to other people's conversations - not good manners and not a good idea. Remember what happens to Lucy in The Voyage of the Dawntreader? Yet for thousands of years people have been saving letters and leaving them behind for later generations to read. We would know a great deal less about the past if we didn't have letters as evidence. One thing we can learn from all those documents is that human nature doesn't change. A recently published book, called 'More Letters of Note' includes an angry letter from a copper merchant who felt disrespected in 1750BC and a delightful one to the television show Blue Peter, from a nine-year-old boy who grew up to become a doctor. The scrap of hard to read writing above is from The Paston Letters, a fascinating collection of letters from various members of the same family spanning most of the fifteenth century.
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    graduated with an MA in English from Somerville College, Oxford University, and  continued her post-graduate studies with a PGCE, specialising in Primary Education.

    She has taught at leading schools in London and New York, and now works as a tutor teaching English and Latin to children aged between four and fifteen.

    She and her husband have five grown-up children who attended leading universities in  the UK, USA, China and Germany, and are  variously employed in law, journalism, hospitality, advertising and theatre. 

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