Flea Market Love Letters

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Once or twice a year there will come an email to the Flea Market Love Letters inbox ( info@fleamarketloveletters.com ) where someone...

Hello reader! Liz Maguire, creator and curator of the project, here. In June of 2025 the Flea Market Love Letters archive turned 8 years...

Hip, hip, hooray we're 8 years old! It feels like another lifetime back in D.C. in 2017 when the archive first took shape. Back then it...

According to a mix of sources, there are between 30 - 60 global postal or communication themed museums around the world. In this post...

In this edition of Books About Letters we're chatting all about a gorgeous epistolary novel. When I found the striking cover of "The...

My dearest lovely Boy, You don't know how your Daddy misses you but Daddy knows that you are having a good time. How do you like your...

Way back in 2020 I was a guest on the popular podcast 'What Should I Read Next?' where the host Anne Bogel recommended 3 'Books That Read...

Here at Flea Market Love Letters HQ we're always on the look out for 'letters in the wild' like these two we've found here in Ireland....

Thursday Afternoon - April 6, 1933 Dearest Mary: –  Received your letter last evening and thot I would answer it after supper but Dot and...

Tuesday afternoon - March 21 - 1933  Dearest Mary: -- Any they say this is spring. Well its noy my idea of spring weather. Wasn’t Sunday...

Friday Evening, Sept. 22, 1932 Dear Mary: –  I wonder what you are doing tonight. Hope you are getting ready to  see the foot-ball game....

John R. Newton S 1/C Naval Rec. Sta.  Barracks 3 Casco Bay, Maine  Dear Jean:  Well how are you doin’ kid? I thought I’d drop you  a line...

12 Doughtys Hospital  Calvert Street Norwich  My Dear Lillie,  I am sorry you were not able to see the Doctor after waiting for long at...

Auburn June 3rd 1917  My Dear Mrs Rosecrants Grandmother has just told me that you called on her one day last week and the she told you...

Troy, S.C.  Jan- 23-1921 My Darling  Little Girl It is with pleasure that I write to you was glad to here from you hope this will find...

North Bay, N.Y.  Jan. 24, 1893 Dear Lena,  Your interesting letter came Monday morning on the mail train from Oneida it must have left...

In the last 6 months I've received a record number of emails into the project. It's time to bring the Flea Market Love Letters community...

Phila Feb 14, 1865 Joshua Haines  Altoona, PA  My Friend  Enclosed please find a advertisement from “Press”. One of our best daily...

Monday Eve.  All my own Man: –  Well I’m here in the bosom of the family. They all seemed glad to see me so of course I was to see them,...