Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization (Text)
Title
Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization (Text)
Description
Comparatively, the week the same section of “The Moonstone” appeared Harper’s Weekly, an American publication, it was featured alongside several references, either textual or imagistic, to the now commonplace epistolary lifestyle. The opening page is comprised almost entirely of a image depicting the “Dead Letter Office” a place where the lost letters of the American postal service were laid to rest. The image alone reveals a pile of letters, offering a visual image of what will later become prominent in Collin’s text, but also highlighting the popularity of epistolary correspondence. The article that accompanies the image begins “Out of the 462,279,719 letters which annually pass through the United States mails, 4,306,508 are misdirected or unpaid and go to the Dead-Letter Office at Washington.”
Creator
Source
Archives and Special Collections
Publisher
Calgary: University of Calgary
Date
Contributor
Semchuk, Sydney
Rights
http://library.ucalgary.ca/copyright/images
Language
English
Type
Text
Original Format
Print Publication
Files
Collection
Citation
Harper's Weekly, “Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization (Text),” University of Calgary Class Projects, accessed November 21, 2024, https://test.omeka.ucalgary.ca/document/76.