Lakeside Arts
Part of University of Nottingham
Lakeside Arts
Event Detail

Living Letters: Correspondence then and now

Thursday 12 October - Sunday 03 March, Various times
Weston Gallery

Exhibitions

Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12noon-4pm
Closed Mondays
Admission free

For centuries letters have been key vehicles of human communication. This exhibition explores correspondence from the medieval period to the present and celebrates the letter’s enduring importance. It examines letters’ capacity to chronicle all stages and aspects of human life – from birth to death – and to capture both the personal and the professional.

It reveals how they are powerful in their abilities to connect with and impact on the lives of others. It illuminates how letters are also deeply vulnerable, fragile objects whose preservation is liable to the vicissitudes of time, fashion, and chance.

Date Event  
Thursday 19 October, 1-2pm

TALK: Confessions of a Romantic Letter Hunter

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Tuesday 7 November, 10-11.30am Letter Handling Session Find out more
Wednesday 22 November, 1-2pm TALK: Ten Years of the Letters Page Find out more
Wednesday 22 November, 11am-12noon Guided Gallery Tour Find out more
Tuesday 16 January, 1-2pm TALK: Creativity, Craft and Correspondence: Letters as Art Find out more
Tuesday 16 January, 11am-12noon Guided Gallery Tour Find out more
Thursday 8 February, 1.30-3pm Letter Handling Session Find out more
Thursday 29 February, 1-2pm Letters and Laughs: Humour in literary Correspondence Find out more 

Image: ‘The Letter’, from Mrs [Elizabeth] Turner,
The cowslip, or, More cautionary stories in verse; with thirty engravings by Samuel Williams (1885). Briggs Collection, PZ6.7.T8

This exhibition has been jointly curated by University of Nottingham Libraries, Manuscripts and Special Collections, and Professor Lynda Pratt, School of English, University of Nottingham.