Selecting and Editing of Readers’ Letters in the Late 19th-Century Finnish Press

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PICTURE 1. Correspondence column ‘Breflåda’ in a national Swedish-speaking newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet 20 March 1895. National Library's Digital Collections.

PICTURE 2. Some apparently unpublished letters to the editor from the mid-1880s sent to the Swedishspeaking national newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad have been preserved. There are no editorial notes on these letters or any other indication of why they were never published or why they were archived. Chydeniuska släktarkivet SLSA 642.

FIGURE 1. The most common reasons for rejection (mentioned in the correspondence column).