Making sense of German historical records can be tricky because the old German Cursive Alphabet and typefaces kept changing. See why!

Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.

You can now hold Mr. Darcy's dispatches in your hands.

In this age of instant communication, Barbara Heller loves letters. She loves to get letters, and she loves to write letters.

Antique Writing Essentials: An open antique book rests on a wooden desk alongside a vintage key and glasses. #antique #book #vintage #writing #desk #aiart #aiphoto #stockcake ⬇️ Download and 📝 Prompt 👉 https://ayr.app/l/hDgQ

excerpt from a love letter from Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton during their passionate affair

Old German (Prussian) Alphabet & German Script - from Elementarbuch Der Deutschen Sprache, by Arnold Werner-Spanhood (1912)

xii, 345 p. 20 cm

Raise your hand, Pandas who still have a notebook! (A handful of hands slowly come up.) Now, raise your hand if you write in that notebook! While we listen to the humming silence, I have to admit that in the past week, I scribbled out a single post-it note with my groceries list. The fact is obvious: typing has pretty much replaced the good, old and beautiful art of handwriting. (I am not looking at you, doctors!)