In its first special exhibition since its reopening, New York’s Frick Collection brings together three Johannes Vermeer ...

In today's world, letter writing is not just unusual; it is almost a completely forgotten art. Although the advances in technology are amazing, we can lose some things along the way, as well. Here ...

Tuesday is National Letter Writing Day. As the holiday season comes upon us, why not bring back the letter? Here are some reasons to bring letter writing back as a ...

In his 2013 book, "To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing," The New York Times best-selling author Simon Garfield asked the question, ...

For thousands of years, letter writing has been the primary form of human communication. Now, with e-mail and text messaging, mailed correspondence is becoming as obsolete as film and LPs. Just as ...

The lost art of letter writing (II) Although each individual post office was just a building, it’s tentacles reached far and wide and touched virtually every building in the land.

In 1919, the Yale Review lamented that “the art of writing letters has been lost,” with blame cast on the telephone, the typewriter, the telegraph, even the train — for delivering letters ...

Personal letters have fallen out of fashion, to be replaced by emails, picture postcards and family newsletters — especially around the holidays. ... The lost art of letter writing.