Definition of "letter-rack" [letter-rack]

• A tray divided into small compartments in which large types of wood are ranged. (noun)
• A rack or small frame, usually ornamented, in which letters, arranged as answered and unanswered or otherwise, are kept. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "‘You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter-rack.’"
• "I remember once taking a tramp in your glorious Surrey hills, thinking of nothing but gorse and skylarks, when I came out on a vast circle of land, and over me lifted a vast, voiceless structure, tier above tier of seats, as huge as a Roman amphitheatre and as empty as a new letter-rack."
• ""Why, you know that letter-rack of silver cardboard that I have been making for her birthday, and counted so on giving her, isn't finished.""