Epistolary Practices, Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications, The University of North Carolina Press, William Merrill Decker,American/General,LITERARY CRITICISM, American Studies; American literary history; personal letter; popular and literary culture; colonial period; postmodern period; John Winthrop; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Abigail and John Adams; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Margaret Fuller; Henry David Thoreau; Samuel Clemens; Henry James; Alice James; indentured servants; New England factory workers; slaves; soldiers; Western pioneers; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Emily Dickinson; Henry Adams; letter writing in the electronic age,, , United States, en-UShttps://uncpress.orgAmerican Studies; American literary history; personal letter; popular and literary culture; colonial period; postmodern period; John Winthrop; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Abigail and John Adams; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Margaret Fuller; Henry David Thoreau; Samuel Clemens; Henry James; Alice James; indentured servants; New England factory workers; slaves; soldiers; Western pioneers; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Emily Dickinson; Henry Adams; letter writing in the electronic age, [BLURB],[CITY],NC,books, ebooks, biblet, Book2look