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Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence
Across the Miles Tales of Correspondence Author:L. M. Montgomery, Rea Wilmshurst (Editor) In L.M. Montgomery’s world, receiving a letter was an important event. Letters, before the advent of the telephone, were the sole means of communication between people who lived at a distance from each other. Letter-writing was a cultivated skill, honed by another nineteenth-century pastime, keeping a journal. The twenty stories in ... more »>Across the Miles bear witness to the importance these writing forms played in ordinary people’s lives, as they corresponded with loved ones and expressed themselves through their journals.« less