To the Letter, Paperback/Simon Garfield

Now in paperback, this is an enlightening history of letter-writing and our relationship with the mail, from the bestselling author of }Just My Type{ and }On The Map{. From the Roman wood chips discovered near Hadrian's Wall to the wonders and terrors of email, this explores how we have written to each other over the centuries. Also delves into great correspondence from Cicero, Jane Austen, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac and many others.