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

Flea Market Love Letters
Jul 42 min read
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Letters We Don't Read.
Hello reader! Liz Maguire, creator and curator of the project, here. In June of 2025 the Flea Market Love Letters archive turned 8 years...

Flea Market Love Letters
Jul 42 min read
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Our 8th Birthday.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Jun 281 min read
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Postal Museums of the World We've Visited.
According to a mix of sources, there are between 30 - 60 global postal or communication themed museums around the world. In this post...

Flea Market Love Letters
Jun 161 min read
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Books About Letters: "The Correspondent"
In this edition of Books About Letters we're chatting all about a gorgeous epistolary novel. When I found the striking cover of "The...

Flea Market Love Letters
Jun 112 min read
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1860s Ring & Letter.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 212 min read
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Famous Letters.
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....

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 212 min read
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'Handwritten History: Stories from the Flea Market Love Letters Archive.'
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Feb 211 min read
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Lost Letter Stories.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Nov 18, 20241 min read
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The 'New Deal' and Post Office Murals.
Have you ever seen a mural like this in your local post office (or federal building)? You can thank Franklin Delano Roosevelt for them!...

Flea Market Love Letters
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Exploring a Retired Post Office.
In October 2024 I got the opportunity to tour the inside of the Mankato, Minnesota post office -- and former court house! Closed since...

Flea Market Love Letters
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Books About Letters: "Who's Got Mail? The History of Mail in America"
This May we're talking all things "Who's Got Mail? The History of Mail in America" Â by Linda Barrett Osborne. A nonfiction look at the...

Flea Market Love Letters
Jul 19, 20242 min read
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Waxing on about Wax Seals.
An anecdotal history on wax seals.

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 27, 20243 min read
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Flea Market Love Letters: 2024 Archive Stats.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 15, 20242 min read
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The Definitive "Books About Letters" List.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 29, 20242 min read
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What is a 'Found' Letter?
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 29, 20243 min read
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Kids & Middle-Grade Edition: Books About Letters.
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...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Hacking the Handwriting.
Recently we went to the cinema to see the new film "Wicked Little Letters" in which -- in as non-spoilery a way as possible --...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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Books About Letters: "Letters of Note"
This March the Book About Letters is Shaun Usher's 'Letters of Note' . A must-have for the letter lover's bookshelf, this anthology...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 12, 20243 min read
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How to Write a Love Letter.
For almost 7 years here at Flea Market Love Letters we've been covering the topic of all things love letter. For the day that's in it --...

Flea Market Love Letters
Feb 13, 20242 min read
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