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

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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.