Article: Letters, Lawrence, Shakespeare and biography *.(Critical Essay)

Some time ago the Royal Mail ran a series of television advertisements urging viewers to make more use of its services. In these days of creeping privatization I have no idea how much public money now goes into the Royal Mail but, if the sums are still considerable, then I think that taxpayers might well resent them being spent in this way. It is as if the Ministry of Transport, in its efforts to 'get people out of their cars', were to run a comparable series on the benefits of the horse-drawn carriage. Letter-writing is surely doomed and will die out with the rapidly decreasing number of its current practitioners. If already it can hardly compete with increasingly fast ...

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