"I have after a long year recved yr kind leter of Nov 26-1778 wherin you
like yr self do all for me that the most Affectionat Brother can be
desiered or Expected to do, & tho I feel my self full of gratitude for yr
Generousity, the conclution of yr leter Affectes me more; where you say you
wish we may spend our last days together o my Dear Brother if this could be
Accomplished it would give me more Joy than any thing on this side Heaven
could posally do; I feel the want of suitable conversation I have but litle
heare, I think I could Asume more freedom with you now & convence you of my
affection for you."
Janet Franklin Mecom to Benjamin Franklin, 1779.
from: Decker, William M. 1998. *Epistolary Practices. Letter Writing in
America before Telecommunications* Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press
=2E..which explores the presences and absences, distances and intimacies
upheld by letter writers famous and unknown, with, in the conclusion, a
hint towards the continuities and discontinuities with epistolary genres in
the electronic age.
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Eva