Enjoy an intimate look at a Tennessee Williams that only his greatest publisher and dearest friend, James Laughlin, would have known—all through the vehicle of their personal letters to one another. Presented by stationer Nancy Sharon Collins and local actors, this staged reading includes selections from The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James […]

Learn to write that letter you really don’t want to! This informative session about personal correspondence by Nancy Sharon Collins, Stationer LLC, is a “how-to” presentation for drafting hard-to-write letters. Using visually compelling, real-life examples—historic and contemporary—Collins illustrates the nuts and bolts for how to compose thoughtful, thorough letters and notes addressing sensitive emotional situations.

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In this fifth mini-video, Mrs. Collins explains, in a heart felt manner, what its like receiving a personal letter. This series of ten videos, all less than a minute in length, are snippets about engraved stationery, receiving personal letters in the snail-mail method (through the post office), and what its like being a stationer creating

Handmade Genuine Pressboard and vintage Onion Skin ledgers. At 16.5” X 7” the volume is tall enough for carrying textbook-style in your arms. Mrs. Collins’s ledgers are bound with silk thread and an Iris, book cloth spine comprised of 80 pages each blue and white 9#, vintage, onion skin papers. Onion skin is but a tad