I agree vball you can send and email and a handwritten letter with the same words punctuation etc and I believe the handwritten letter will be much more meaningful. I also have found that when I write by hand my thoughts flow better and my subconscious can take the letter to places you don’t plan or expect.
Concur. Hand-writing requires purposeful thought and conveys intent. You can start a letter and come back to it. What you write with your hand is almost always exactly what you mean. e-comms are dry, flat, easily misconstrued. Johnny Cash to June.... Liz Taylor to Richard Burton.... ' A daughter to a dad... Who would want to read any of those in an email? For the most part, email was intended for business to share short bursts of business-related information. It doesn't work to convey anything of a personal nature and even in business, if it's more than a couple paragraphs, a face-to-face conversation is called for.