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Originally Posted by gmw
We have collection of postcards in a writing box of my grandmother's - she was living in England when most of them were collected. They read like today's phone text messages (without the bad spelling and leet.  ) And just like today's camera phones, people used to send postcards that were photos of themselves. A century has passed and it's surprising what hasn't changed. |
I remember reading (in a writing book I think) how true that is. Someone, I think in the forward, noted how alike letters written home by a roman soldier and a soldier in WWI were. For that matter students in the later middle ages writing home for $ help were very like a letter which a student away at college today might write. Some things just don't change no matter what the time period.