{"id":1177,"date":"2016-04-21T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2016-04-23T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:21:19","slug":"art-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/art-of-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistolary Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crafting a quality handwritten letter is an art form \u2013 especially nowadays when we so rarely take the time to put ink to paper, attach a stamp, and send our social messages by post. This week in the archives we came across some excellent examples of nineteenth century &#8216;crossed&#8217; letters, in among new additions to the John Bell fonds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1178\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-image-1178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"pic_2016-04-13_125446\" width=\"427\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/files\/2016\/04\/pic_2016-04-13_125446-386x300.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossed letter, 1876.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The technique of crossing perpendicular lines (also referred to as cross-hatched) was a popular method to save on paper and postage costs back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crafting a quality handwritten letter is an art form \u2013 especially nowadays when we so rarely take the time to put ink to paper, attach a stamp, and send our social messages by post. This week in the archives we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/art-of-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-letsfindout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}