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Many wrote to their family on blue aerogram letters.

Hundreds of feather-light, blue aerograms fluttered out, dispersing their musty smells.

Our observation of rising rates of HIV-related TB in 1991 required a letter written on an ancient typewriter, posted by aerogram and eventually published months later as a letter in the British Medical Journal.

The family stayed in touch through letters, handwritten on lightweight, pale-blue stationery known as aerograms that took about two weeks to travel between India and California.

In silence she prepared crackers with peanut butter for Eliot, then sat reading old aerograms from a shoebox.