In my attempts to find proper letter formats, I came across a book of letters. In this book, entitled "More Letters to Rollins", is an entire collection of fan mail. Yes, this is a sequel. But before we get too wrapped up in that fact, lets quickly move on to the form.
Each letter in the book is typed in a font that best represents its original form. From some of the research I've done it's hard to discern whether or not these letters are really real, but for sake of this explanation, let's say they are. Some fonts are repeated, others are not. There are also pictures included with some of the letters and one particularly adorable hand written letter by a young girl named Ashley. Some of them are formal, with headers and addresses, others appear to be emails. Others still seem like notes, scrawled on paper, typed up before printing. Some of the letters have actual signatures, others just typed names. Now, onto the content.
Each of these letters reflects a new side to the multi-faceted Henry Rollins. Some are continued conversations, in which we the readers only see their half of the conversation. None of the letters have a response from Henry. Some of the letters to correlate to other letters within the book. In this way, through connected letters and multiple correspondences, characters are created. None of them are very deeply developed, but you do know quite a bit about them through the way they write and what they say.
In general it's a very interesting perspective. This book is a great example of what is acceptable for modern letters.
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