DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was taught by my mother and grandmother, who practiced what they preached, that condolence letters are to be acknowledged. Their practice was to answer every condolence letter ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic ...

Robert Carolla was 11 years old when his younger brother died of leukemia in 1953. Carolla, who later became a physician, remembers the letter a doctor wrote to his family when his brother died. Time ...