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The wonderful, vanishing world of the handwritten letter

The people in your postbag as a newspaper columnist could not be more different from those who comment online

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

Those who write letters and send them by post are a dying breed. I was fortunate to have served as a newspaper columnist and received a great many. Often eloquent, sometimes humorous, their breadth and depth of experience was wonderful.

With the exception of letters that were racist or completely mad, I tried to answer every one of them.

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Peter Oborne is an associate editor of The Spectator.

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