For a Little Letter-Writing Inspiration...

This weekend, I was lost in the Internet, jumping from link to link, just looking at interesting things. I came across this article, "The 101 Most Useful Websites" on the Daily Telegraph's online newspaper. (Note: All 101 Web sites aren't listed in the online article.)

One of the Web sites listed was "Letters of Note," a blog featuring copies of interesting correspondence. Today's post is a 1964 letter from British children's book author Enid Blyton to the Australian Prime Minister, who had apparently made some derogatory comments about one of her books. Letters of Note has a copy of the original letter and a transcription, making it easier to read.

Letters of Note often includes links to collections of letters, too.

It's a great letter-writing site! Visit it and enjoy perusing the many letters there.

Fun finds

In snooping around for letter writing stuff, I came across a Web site I hadn't seen before: LetterWriting.com.

It's mostly a collection of links to several sites. There are great writing-related rubber stamps at The Rubber Stamp Queen and a collection of Alice in Wonderland-themed electronic postcards.

Another link takes you to the beautiful note cards featuring Deborah Marchant's artwork at Simple Minds, aka DeWit-Marchant Fine Art and Graphics, Web site. The note cards are divided into categories: Writers, Readers, The Cat and Connections. I think my favorite is the note card titled "Messages of Spring," which depicts a rural mailbox with its red flag up and a girl walking back to the house down a long country driveway. The quote that is under the note card on the Web site says:

"As long as there are postmen, life will have zest." William James

The LetterWriting Web site also has a link to a book-buying Web site called Cash4Books.net.
All in all, it was an interesting visit to LetterWriting.com. Make a visit yourself.