Letters to Monet from his fellow Impressionists are now up for auction. I've always been fascinated by creative groups - the Impressionists, the Bloomsbury group, the Algonquin Round Table. It's amazing what happens when a group of like-minded creatives gather together and talk and drink and exchange ideas. Personally, I would have loved to have been around these groups just to listen in.
Fancy fonts on a computer really are nothing compared to a handwritten letter. My grandmother told me that she still has the letters that she and my grandfather exchanged when they were dating and he was overseas while in the Army. That would have been in the late 1940s, maybe early 1950s. I hope I get to read them one day.
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