MDHandwritten+Letters

**Hand writing letters has been around for a long time. The first recorded handwritten letter was by the Persian Queen, Queen Atossa around 500 BC. Before 1840 letters didn't have stamps or envelopes the receiver had to pay for it. The letters were folded and sealed by wax with a ring or hand seal. In ancient times the pen that they used was made from wood, metal or bone shaped to a point. A reed was used on papyrus and parchment (writing material they used in ancient times) dipped in Indian or Chinese ink made from cuttlefish. Led pencils were used in ancient Greese but only as temporary writing that would be rubbed out later. In the 14th century led pencils became popular and they were common to use. Unfortunatly h andwritten letters comes 9th in America’s top 25 vanishing things in America. This show that lots of people are giving up hand writing letters to each other and upgrading to computers. **








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