Naomi Baron has a nice book on paper writing and e-writing. Baron, Naomi. (2000). Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where it is Heading. New York: Routledge. And speaking of Hallmark, they came nosing around MIT a few years ago looking for a study of paper vs e-cards. That's before some of us realized that e-cards were great spam trawlers. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ Reply to: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Postal mail and e-mail Dear Michael - I think someone in this group built up some theory on what postal mail meant to the Victorians (British). Uh this is the only ref I can find to Victorians: Standage, T. (1998). The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers. New York, Walker and Co. But from the Royal Mail you could pull it up to the 21st C. America. Maybe there's a fun history out there on Hallmark cards???? Cheers, Denise