Flea Market Love Letters

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An introduction to Liz Maguire, creator and curator of the project.

Once or twice a year there will come an email to the Flea Market Love Letters inbox (info@fleamarketloveletters.com) where someone writes asking if the archive (therefore I, Liz Maguire, creator and curator) would be interested in either purchasing a collection of letters or receiving a collection. Historically I have said no to these solicitations. Why? Because letters are an inherently and intensely personal thing. Emotions are attached and when someone directly linked to t

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...

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....

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...

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...

This May we're talking all things "Who's Got Mail? The History of Mail in America" by Linda Barrett Osborne. A nonfiction look at the...

An anecdotal history on wax seals.

It's that wonderful time of year again...the annual Flea Market Love Letters stock take. In 2023 we explored the archive up to then as...

Are you a letter lover AND a bibliophile? This is the definitive list of books which we have read and reviewed for the Flea Market Love...

Liz here, creator and curator of the archive. That's me looking absolutely delighted when I came across a big stash of 'found' letters at...

Here at Flea Market Love Letters we believe that the letter has a long life ahead of it...so long as kids learn from an early age just...

Recently we went to the cinema to see the new film "Wicked Little Letters" in which -- in as non-spoilery a way as possible --...