Reading these letters chronologically, one is struck by the process of Clark rather self-consciously becoming himself, with the dull, somewhat priggish correspondent of his early years abroad transmuting into the distinctive
epistolatory stylist of maturity.
Previous individual collections, The Hudson Letter and The Yellow Book, found Mahon engaged in the
epistolatory long poem which irritated some critics who hankered after his customary shorter lyrics.
Mr Ervine, however, has asseverated that he has already sent an
epistolatory missive to the paramilitarists in question asking them to desist from any actions which may be construed as recidivistic.
37-38, 53-57; also see Katherine Patterson, "Designing an
Epistolatory Corpus of Victorian Women Writers' Letters: Challenges and Opportunities," Text Technology, VI (1996).
the
epistolatory. Lately, however, women's identification with the
I can't think of a more lifeenhancing sight than our leading man of letters, Lord (Melvyn) Bragg himself, majestically mounting his mountain bike to check we're truly satisfied with our
epistolatory deliveries.