Flea Market Love Letters

Dec. 21, 1943 “Italy”  Dear Friend  Am sorry that I have not answered your most welcome letter. But have been very busy and have not had...

18 Gt. Western St. 7.8.01 Please Miss Cleary, I hope you will excuse Mary and Lillie, for being absent yesterday. A cousin was spending...

17 Blachwater St.,  Rockdale  11 P.M. Friday.  Dear Auntie:  As  have found out that the single fare to Blackpool by train is 6/5, + the...

Rear of 209 East Spencer Ave, Wildwood, N.J. August 21, 1933. Dear Mom: What do you know! Emily and I went to the movies last night and...

Sully N.Y.  11/11/15 My Own Dear Girl; -  As I am so joyful to-night I thought I better write and tell you about it.  Its about the...

My Dearest Darling This is Christmas evening + I am going to spend it with you darling, Honey, I am so lonely with out you I just sorta...

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July 23, 1943 Somewhere in North Africa  Dear Friend  I have been planning to write to you for some time. But I haven’t had to much time....

Mabone Aug 25/85  Dear Judge  I need yours, with a great deal of pleasure. You will accept my heartfelt thanks, + if I ever have an...

Lowville, N.Y., September 2nd, 1908 Dear Cousin Effie: - Your letter did not reach me until my return from an absence of some time from...

Dear sister I have just received your kind letter my heart did rejoice to hear that you was well and able to work some for it helps to...

Tuesday Night  August 1 - 1939  Hello My Dearest Darling: -  I arrived OK and back at work, but thing are a little quiet at the present...

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Friday Eve  My Dearest: -  Well we got as far as Loudonville, but it was raining so hard, Lou didn’t want to go on further. We are about...

Wednesday Noon  Estel dear –  Am ready for our daily communion at the Cleveland. Why oh why, don’t you come rushing in, – say you are...

Monday Knoon Dearest Estel: –  Am taking advantage of the Company’s kind realization of the “Law of Opposites” – to spend an hour with...

Saturday  Dearest –  Saturday afternoons were made for you, dear – not for work. Yet it is Saturday, – you are  in Cincinnati – and...

Every month in the Flea Market Love Letters newsletter we share letters of found and lost letters from around the world. When we get a...

Have you ever seen a mural like this in your local post office (or federal building)? You can thank Franklin Delano Roosevelt for them!...

In October 2024 I got the opportunity to tour the inside of the Mankato, Minnesota post office -- and former court house! Closed since...