‘YOU’ is my favourite zine and this issue is a broken drum stick with it’s all famous letter writing page. Great that it comes to Bendigo.
You can get your copy from Allans Walk Artspace.
Photography: Kelly Robson
YOU take the time and sit in a corner to read a letter, a letter especially for YOU.
Ned Kelly known as an Australian Bush-Ranger. On Tuesday, 25th May a very well known letter will be travelling to Bendigo which is Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie letter and also other treasures. You need to book and it is free. Contact the Bendigo Library 0354492700.
Read my letter…
Dear Miss Pinkletoes (pdf)
Miss Pinkletoes was a friend of mine when I was a little girl. We would play in the garden and eat mint, honeysuckle flowers, acorns and quinces. Miss Pinkletoes was everywhere with me in my garden of imagination.
Letter writing is an old form of writing, you would say, in our time today. Though there is, I bet, still a lot of people love writing letters, via the post office and receiving letters in the letterbox. I for one love receiving mail, though I don’t get any, unless it’s a bill or from a government company, but then again I don’t send any letters either. I used to write letters to my mum and dad and half of them I didn’t send as we spoke on the telephone.
The older generation of today send hardcopy letters because they were bought up with them, though there is that generation that have explored into the internet. I thought to start me off writing letters, I thought that I would send myself a letter to get that feel of what is was like receiving a friendship letter in the mail.
The tradition of Xmas cards being sent over the Xmas period is not phasing out, which is good, we need to hang on to old fashion ways to move forward in some way.
I was looking into the post office the other day, paying a bill, when my daughter showed me an old fashion letter- a copy of an old one. The envelope had written on it, A letter to Mary, it’s a 200 celebration of the post office in Tasmania, 1809 to 2009.
The original letter is enclosed with original post marks dated July 19th 1843, London, and it was just folded- no envelope and there was a transcript of the letter- the original is a bit hard to read. The letter is kind of husband love letter to his wife, a convict who was transported to Tasmania for 7 years. The letter is exhibited in the Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery.
