Flea Market Love Letters

One of the most Frequently Asked Questions about the archive is: What's the best letter you've ever found? My answer? All of them! I...

Dear Nonie, I was thinking of you so I thought I’d write to you. It is a lovely day today not to warm, and not to cool. Mother, Daddy, +...

Hello! Thanks for clicking in. My name is Liz Maguire and for my 28th birthday this November I am fundraising for charity. I'll be...

My dearest -- I’ve just been copying some words to songs from Johnny’s song sheet. I copied “If I Didn’t Care”, “The Lamp Is Low”, and...

My Darling -- Today I was practically swamped with mail -- two letters from you and one from Lewis besides my paper, which had Boris and...

The weather is starting to turn which can only mean one thing: Autumn is en route! It's hard to believe we're coming up on a year of...

My dearest -- I don’t know if you will be able to read this or not -- I’m witing sitting in bed. Oh, I’m alright, darling, don’t worry....

Friday October 1, 2021 was World Postcard Day 2021. World Postcard Day is the global movement to do exactly what it says on the tin: Send...

Dearest Kaye -- It just struck six o’clock over radio as I started to write -- and imagine today is the first day of August. That reminds...

My Sweetheart - Wasn’t that funny that our Sunday letters both began about the same. You know about getting home at 6:30. One thing I see...

Welcome back to the October installment of the Writing Through the Decades series. Today we're taking a look at "The Ladies' and...

Ta-da! We've been busy at Flea Market H.Q. in the best possible way: inhaling more Books About Letters for this extra special bonus...

My Darling -- It is just 6:30 now and I suppose you are nearly home by now. I do hope you had a safe, pleasant journey home. I enjoyed...

Recently we've been sharing the adorable and tender Roth letters. In the process of four years of photographing, typing, and sharing...

My Dearest: I got two letters from you today and did I enjoy hearing from you! I am warning you in advance that this won’t be a two page...

My Dearest -- I just finished reading your letter that I received this afternoon - (that was the 4th time) and I enjoyed it so much, as...

Darling: -- I guess you missed my not writing last night, didn’t you? Well honey, we worked until it got real dark and came home here and...

Dear Nelda & Kaye: First apology for using pencil but I am a little nervous tonight so - I was down your last Sunday visiting Tom for the...

They say that a year flies when you're having fun. Thank you to each and every letter lover for their generous patronage of the Write...

My Dearest -- I have so much to write about our trip I don’t know where to start -- so I’ll start at the beginning first of all I’ll tell...