Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Author Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his own insightful and eloquent commentary on the circumstances and characters of the world's most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de Sévigné's devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV, F. Scott Fitzgerald's tormented advice to his young daughter, the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson, the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery O'Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, the cries from prison of Sacco and Vanzetti. Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature - a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.