Last Saturday, listening to the BBC Proms concert, I was impressed with Emily Dickinson’s “Envelope Poems”. ( I will look into her history about that.) My first thought was of notes Grandfather Cannon often wrote on envelopes as scratch paper. ( I do the same with used envelopes carefully opened and saved. Why not?)
Now my second thought relates to the book I’m working on — Love Notes: a tribute to my wife Kay. Some of those tributes may have been drafted on envelopes or napkins. Each writer certainly exhibits his or her unique style of writing. So appreciated!
I suspect my extensive iPhone Notes and PC Notepad files lack a certain character that handwritten envelope notes preserve for future generations. Time will tell.
