Believe it or not, the capital A hasn’t always looked the way it does now. Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

Sometimes writing a letter to someone who has pained you won't change a thing, but it will change and heal you.

As a business professional, you understand the importance of communicating with colleagues, clients, vendors and suppliers in person and through written communication. Even with the popularity of ...

Letters have become moribund. I still get a few Christmas cards and wedding invitations in the mail, but outside of that my mailbox is filled every day with unexciting and unwelcome junk mail and ...

A new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse at correspondences four centuries old. "Letter Writing in Renaissance England," which runs through April 2005, ...

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A friendship that began in 1969 through a Girl Scout pen pal program became a reality this summer when Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights met her longtime pen pal, ...

The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring ...

On Sunday, a rare letter written in English by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte hauled in more than $406,000 (nearly five times the original estimate) at an auction in Paris. Fortunately, spelling ...