A crossed letter is: a manuscript letter which contains two separate sets of writing, one written over the: other at right-angles. This was done during the——early days of the postal system in the 19th century——to save on expensive postage charges, as well as——to save paper. This technique is also called cross-hatching/cross-writing.
A cross letter is distinct from a palimpsest, as cross-hatched manuscripts were written this way at one sitting. Or for the same purpose (such as a diary), rather than being re-used later.
References※
- ^ "A crossed letter". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
- ^ Livingston, Ira (1997). "The Romantic Double-Cross: Keats's Letters". Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity. University of Minnesota Press. p. 143. ISBN 0-8166-2795-9.
- ^ Hassam, Andrew (1994), Sailing to Australia: shipboard diaries by, nineteenth-century British emigrants, Manchester University Press ND, p. 27, ISBN 0-7190-4546-0
- ^ "Cross-Writing: When People Wrote Across the Page to Save Paper". Blog.paperblanks.com. 2013-03-14. Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ^ "Cross Writing - What Is It. And How Do You Read It? | Lonetester HQ". Lonetester.com. 9 February 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-06-26. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ^ Terri Blanchette. "The Writing Trend We (mercifully) Left Behind". 2018.
External links※
Media related to Crossed letters at Wikimedia Commons
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