Letter-writing is an indispensable feature of human life. It is one of the great arts of civilized society. We are social beings and, we have to communicate with other beings in the society for mutual exchanges of thoughts. But when our friends and relations stay far away, we cannot speak to them. It is then that we send them messages through letters. So letter plays a very important role in our social life, because, letters then efficiently act as the substitute for talks.
Letter-writing is an art, perhaps a lost art, as we do not liar now- a-days enough time for writing lengthy literary letters. Horace Walpole, Cowper, Byron. Lamb or Carlyle and many other eminent persons wrote immortal letters. They had time to write such letters through which they could hold up any topic of interest and present themselves through their letters to persons whom they wrote to. But now we race hard against time.
Yet we have to write letters—may be personal or informal letters. Cowper once told his cousin: ‘When I read your letters, I hear you talk!’ That is the trick or the art one must know about letter-writing. One may have to write all kinds of letters, formal and informal. Personal letters have countless varieties. It must throb with an intense intimacy of that it can make the distance between the two disappear totally and make your presence felt by the reader of your letter. In the same way, official or business correspondence, too, must be agreeable. A certain standard or form, an extent of elegance always tend to lend an extra dimension to even official or business correspondence thereby increasing the importance of such letters.
The modern way of life compels us to go anywhere in the world in quest of a suitable subsistence. It is only the letter that comes to help us to overcome that distance and hence, the importance of letter is beyond any question.
Letter-writing is an art, perhaps a lost art, as we do not liar now- a-days enough time for writing lengthy literary letters. Horace Walpole, Cowper, Byron. Lamb or Carlyle and many other eminent persons wrote immortal letters. They had time to write such letters through which they could hold up any topic of interest and present themselves through their letters to persons whom they wrote to. But now we race hard against time.
Yet we have to write letters—may be personal or informal letters. Cowper once told his cousin: ‘When I read your letters, I hear you talk!’ That is the trick or the art one must know about letter-writing. One may have to write all kinds of letters, formal and informal. Personal letters have countless varieties. It must throb with an intense intimacy of that it can make the distance between the two disappear totally and make your presence felt by the reader of your letter. In the same way, official or business correspondence, too, must be agreeable. A certain standard or form, an extent of elegance always tend to lend an extra dimension to even official or business correspondence thereby increasing the importance of such letters.
The modern way of life compels us to go anywhere in the world in quest of a suitable subsistence. It is only the letter that comes to help us to overcome that distance and hence, the importance of letter is beyond any question.
