“I had forgotten how colourful letters once were: the ones in these pages are written on thick cream notepaper, thin blue typing paper; some paper is yellow, some is mushroom-coloured, and some doesn’t even look like paper.… On every page we see how letters capture a human oddity that emails cannot reach.”
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