the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED ...

See Three Breathtaking Vermeer Paintings That Capture the Lost Art of Letter Writing A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display ...

He is compiling an inventory of early medieval and Renaissance sources for the rhetorical art known as ars dictaminis, or letter writing.

The use of letters of the alphabet as political symbols is a little unusual for the simple reason that individual letters aren’t meant to have any intrinsic meaning of their own.