Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] RE: While it is happening (B. D. Colen)writing goingdwnhll
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Wed Jun 23 20:07:35 2004
References: <011701c4597b$11d18610$6601a8c0@ccapr.com>

I believe there were also a good many illiterate people in the Civil 
War.

John Collier

On Jun 23, 2004, at 5:37 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> The Civil War letters are a perfect example - albeit 100 years older -
> of what I've been talking about. Every day people, with basic
> educations, were able to write clear, concise, well constructed prose.


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