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The first recorded hand written letter was written by Persian Queen Atossa, around 500BC. -
King Henry VIII wrote a love letter to the women who would go on to become his 2nd wife. -
The first British colonial post was made.
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A loyalist lady from Massachusetts named Anne Hulton described the actions of the colonial minuteman.
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Washington wrote a letter to his recruiter telling him to investigate a potential source of a man on York Island living on or near the north river. -
Benedict Arnold revealed Washington's plans for the up coming offensive.
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Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer. He exchanged no less than 1,400 letters with his closest friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. In January 1844, Darwin wrote to Hooker that he was starting to become convinced that species were not “immutable”.
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An 11-year-old girl living in the state of New York wrote to Lincoln to tell him she hoped he would be the next president.
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During the first world war letters were soldiers only way to communicate with their families, therefore, over 19,000 mailbags crossed the English channel each day. -
Winston Churchill became prime minister, he was almost immediately put under significant pressure to make a deal with Nazi Germany and end the war. His own assistant private secretary Eliot Crawshay-Williams wrote to him saying he thought Britain should use its “nuisance value while we have one to get the best peace terms possible.
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The first technology for sending messages/letters on the internet.