Receiving letters is special. Here’s a thought that holds up after two centuries

“I am much fonder of receiving letters, than writing them: but I believe this is no very uncommon case.”
– Mary Lamb

Known most for retelling (with her brother, Charles) the plays of William Shakespeare into stories for children, Mary Lamb was also an inveterate writer of letters, some of which were collected and published decades after her death in 1847.

Her own life was marked by pain, mental illness and tragedy; she fatally stabbed her mother in 1796.