Excerpt from Letters From Solitude: And Other Essays
Like many of my generation, I have lost the art of writing letters, and with it, I am sure, a certain fulness of life that accompanies the communication of one's thoughts to a friend at a distance. There are certain things, often trivial but nearly always interesting, that can only be written in letters; one cannot make articles or poems or books out of them - at least I cannot; and sometimes I find that they are the only things I want to say. And as the first quality of a letter is that it is addressed to some one in particular, and not to every one in general; that one is sure of a sympathetic interest and understanding at the receiving end; so I am going to write these letters to four people. Sometimes I shall be speaking to one, sometimes to another; but the one who is addressed will always know. They are all women; two of them are old and two fairly young; but as their ages in the aggregate amount to more than two hundred years, I shall not be accused of frivolity.
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