M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig / C. Socha: Von einfachen Fragen, oder: Ein Brief zur Einführung - I. Konzepte des Briefes / Conceptualizing letters - M. Sinding: Letterier: categories, genres, and epistolarity - N. Cronk: Generic instability in Voltaire's correspondence: When is a letter not a letter? - R. Vellusig: Die Poesie des Briefes. Eine literaturanthropologische Skizze - I. Kording: Epistolarisches. Die achtfache Relationalität des Briefes - J. Strobel: Welchen Erkenntnisgewinn versprechen digitale Briefeditionen? - II. Ein Medium im Wandel / A changing medium - G. Egan: Epistolary valediction in Johnson and Thrale's correspondence - E. Harper: A curious culture of letter writing - J. Gillen: 'I should have wrote a letter tonight': a Literacy Studies perspective on the Edwardian postcard - A. Scott: Letters 2.0? Linguistic insights into the extent to which social media are a substitute for personal letters - E. de Vries: Letters in/on transition: neo-epistolarity, nostalgia, and new media - III. Schreibkulturen / Cultures of writing - P. Reinard: Briefe auf Papyri und Ostraka. Bemerkungen zur quellenkritischen Auswertung in der althistorischen Forschung - L. Hang Tsui: Calligraphic letters as precious objects in Chinese history - L. Vosding: Gifts from the convent: the letters of the Benedictine Nuns at Lüne as the material manifestation of spiritual care - M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig: Collaboration and imagination in letters between parents and their children: The Herder family correspondence 1788-89