"Ever Devotedly Yours:" The Whitlock-Howells Correspondence

Yours ever ( well , maybe ) : studies and signposts in letter writing

Electronic mail and other digital communications technologies seemingly threaten to end the era of handwritten and typed letters, now affectionately seen as part of snail mail. In this essay, I analyze a group of popular and scholarly studies about letter writing—including examples of pundits critiquing the use of e-mail, etiquette manuals advising why the handwritten letter still possesses val...

Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller

Few people outside the botanical world have probably heard of Ferdinand von Mueller, and it may therefore come as a surprise that he is rated important enough for a multi-volume "life and letters". For Australian historians of science, however, he is that country's outstanding nineteenth-century figure, who successfully overcame the handicaps of its geographical isolation to achieve a renown th...

Correspondence: Does Terrorism Ever Work? The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

Howells' craniometric data on the Internet.

This note has to do with availability to others of my database of cranial measurements, compiled from 1965 t o 1980 and treated by me in three monographs (1973, 1989, 1995.) The Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has undertaken to supply it to qualified users. This is a particularly satisfactory arrangement, given their facilities and the special qualifications a...

Yours sincerely