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  • Virginia Woolf called letter-writing "the humane art, which owes its origins to the love of friends", and devoted a good deal of emotional energy to using it to maintain her friendships.

    BBC News - Home 2012

  • Residents in Pinehurst, N.C., Northfield, Minn., Cheraw, S.C., and the Venice section of Los Angeles have all organized letter-writing campaigns to fight post office plans to sell their New Deal-era post offices.

    Post Office History for Sale Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • The “feel” of e-mailing, or blog commenting for that matter, is much more like speech than is letter-writing, because reception and often response are near-immediate.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Caution About Sending E-Mails — and About Trust 2010

  • Their energetic blogging and letter-writing campaigns, targeted at journalists, MPs, EU officials and regulators, distort the truth and misrepresent Phorm ` s technology.

    Phorm Storm: Ertugrul speaks 2009

  • When corporations promote bogus science, conduct fake letter-writing campaigns, or promote weak and hypocritical “consumer protection” laws that exempt them from legal liabilities for their misdoings, there should be outrage, and legal action.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • In an unfinished memoir begun in 1939, Virginia Woolf observed that she had been "born of well-to-do parents, born into a very communicative, literate, letter-writing, visiting, articulate, late nineteenth-century world."

    The Lives of A Novelist Mira Sethi 2011

  • We should be proactive and mount a letter-writing campaign, so that this fate will not befall the host city for the 2012 Summer Games.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Shroud of Torino 2010

  • If Oskar Werner's features recall those of his director, Jim's love of letter-writing reminds us that Mr. Truffaut himself adored writing—usually by hand—to friends and acquaintances alike.

    For the Love of a Fickle Woman Peter Cowie 2012

  • The result of a letter-writing campaign by Amnesty International, it led to a 15-year correspondence between the families that lasted until Harold died.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • Toss in a time-traveling Zac Efron and a letter-writing soldier, and you have the race for Best Male Performance at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, airing this Sunday, June 6, at 9 p.m.

    TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS JUNE 2ND: ECLIPSE SOUNDTRACK, MTV MOVIE AWARDS & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010

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