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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing

Tekijä: Nina Sankovitch

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"Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished from a beloved sister and from her husband. From there she sets off on a quest to discover the secrets of letter writers and why we find them so fascinating--from the ancient Egyptians to the medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, from letters between Benjamin Franklin and his daughter to the notes that President Lincoln receives when his son dies. Sankovitch celebrates letters from Edith Wharton to Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter describing life in Hollywood, James Joyce to his Nora, V.S. Naipaul to his father, young Sam Stewart to Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz, and Rachel Carson to her woman lover. She looks at epistolary novels and her husband's love letters as well as her uncle's letters from his Holocaust exile, and dozens more. Plus her son's brief reports from college on the weather and his allowance. In a beautifully written book, itself a perfect gift, Nina Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for"--… (lisätietoja)
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Ms. Sankovitch’s discovery of an old steamer trunk she finds in her backyard which holds hundred year old letters written by a Princeton freshman, James Seligman, to his mother in the early 1900s.

These letters are fascinating, as he reports on an explosion in the J.P. Morgan building, comments on Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, and the death of his uncle on the Titanic. His letters are dry and acerbic, but filled with details.

Ms. Sankovitch’s book goes on explore the history of letter writing and we get to read correspondences ranging from the ancient Egyptians, to medieval lovers, to letters exchanged between Samuel Morris Steward, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas -- the latter, some racy and fun reading.

Her section on the letters President Lincoln received after his son's, Willy's, death, revealed a rare bit of history. Franklin Pierce and family were in a train crash on their way to Washington DC to take office in 1853. Thrown from the carriage, Pierce and his wife watched helplessly as their son was hit and killed by the still-moving train. Pierce was writing from his own similar experience when he penned his heartfelt condolences to Abraham Lincoln.

Ms. Sankovitch interweaves her own experiences and correspondences with well-researched accounts of other letter writers in history. I love to read other's correspondence, peeking into their day-to-day lives, hopes, and dreams.

The book is a love story to the lost art of letter writing, a wonderful way to glimpse into history and relationships -- all revealed through letters:

"A written letter is a one-of-a-kind document, a moment in time caught on paper, thoughts recorded and sent on, a single message to a special recipient.”

"Sir, more than Kisses, letters mingle souls. For thus, friends absent speak" John Donne, "To Sir Henry Wollow"

Ms. Sankovitch's own son is heading off to Harvard, and she hopes that he will write to her, as the Princeton student wrote to his mother and as Nina wrote to hers -- but she knows she will have to settle for emails or text messages.

"Yes, I am waiting for an answer to my letter but waiting is not my main activity. To be dependent on e-mail and text is to have access to immediate response -- but diminishes the rich opportunities that come from living with delayed gratification. For so much happens in the delay."

This book made me think about future generations. Somehow, I suspect that no one is saving emails and text messages in old trunks. Without letters -- from those who made history, shared their love for each other or, just reported on their routine lives -- how will we know those long dead? ( )
  BookBarmy | Jul 8, 2017 |
Do you like to write letters? Do you love to read old letters? Then I recommend Nina"s Sankovitch's new book "Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Nina's book is about the history of letter writing from ancient egyptians, to letters President Lincoln received after his son's death, to present day tv shows that include letters in their story line.
This book was a joy to read. ( )
  bah195 | May 1, 2014 |
Part memoir and part history of letters, Signed, Sealed, Delivered is a lovely, light book, less in-depth than Simon Garfield's To The Letter, but equally (if not more) enjoyable. The author writes about a cache of letters she found in a trunk when her family bought a house in New York, mostly from a young man to his mother; she also writes about her correspondence with her children, especially her oldest son, who has just gone off to college. For those who have even the faintest interest in or nostalgia for letter-writing, this is a perfect book.

Quotes

Almost everyone I know has letters saved away somewhere...And when I ask people why they keep these letters, the answer is always the same. Because the letters are a link, a connection. (25)

It is the authenticity of expression...that has drawn so many devoted followers to the couple [Abelard and Heloise]. This authenticity was possible only because of the guarantee of privacy under which the letters were written. (37)

But what is written in diaries is not the same as what is written in letters. Letters are both private and shared at the same time, a hidden admission between the one who writes and the one who receives. (37-38)

There are many examples of love letters, personal and revealing, that might have been better off destroyed, but who can bear to erase proof of love, when that might be the only talisman left to declare its existence? (40)

[Gertrude] Stein disdained all punctuation in her letters: "Everyone knows a question is a question so why use a question mark. And commas, they help you put on your coat and button your shoes for you and anyone can do that. But I believe in periods because after all you have to stop sometime." (51)

A written letter is always a one-of-a-kind document, a moment in time caught on paper, thoughts recorded and sent on, a single message to a special recipient. (53)

Time passes, and ever more rapidly as I grow older. But letters remain. (89)

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it." -Emily Dickinson (96)

"There is so much to say, and there are no words with which to say it." -Thomas Merton to Chris McNair after McNair's son's death (111)

"May you find peace in the fact that you gave so much love to this dear person." -condolence letter to Arthur Ashe's wife and daughter (115)

In the hundreds of volumes of letters I've read over my lifetime, the most commonly expressed emotion is not love or consolation but thanks. (119)

Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" (125)

There is something wonderful about that interval, the space between sending off a message and getting one back again. (129)

Because when someone write to me, or when I write to someone, an instant response is not the expectation; instead, a thoughtful, rich reply is what we wait for. What we are willing to wait for. (136)

Letters "reflect the affectionate, high-spirited, often passionate individualism of men and women reaching across the silence of space for the sympathy of that other heart." -Edward Weeks (139)

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." -Confucius (146)

Digital messaging allows communication without contact. It is easy and fast, and for the most part dependable. (191)

"People such as you do not remain submerged for long. People like us are like corks thrown on water: we may go down momentarily; but we simply must pop up again." -V.S. Naipaul to son (193)

Distance is reversed, connection made possible again. The qualities of a good letter are also the qualities of a god relationship....Letters are the physical tokens of kindness we show each other....Letters are abiding and durable. Letters are markers of our love. (196) ( )
  JennyArch | Jun 2, 2014 |
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"Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished from a beloved sister and from her husband. From there she sets off on a quest to discover the secrets of letter writers and why we find them so fascinating--from the ancient Egyptians to the medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, from letters between Benjamin Franklin and his daughter to the notes that President Lincoln receives when his son dies. Sankovitch celebrates letters from Edith Wharton to Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter describing life in Hollywood, James Joyce to his Nora, V.S. Naipaul to his father, young Sam Stewart to Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz, and Rachel Carson to her woman lover. She looks at epistolary novels and her husband's love letters as well as her uncle's letters from his Holocaust exile, and dozens more. Plus her son's brief reports from college on the weather and his allowance. In a beautifully written book, itself a perfect gift, Nina Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for"--

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