Flea Market Love Letters

My dearest Jack, Well yesterday was a wonderful day for me. In the morning I received your letter written Sunday and containing all the...

My dearest Jack, I scarcely know where to start. Your letter describing your Xmas was certainly lovely – you are rightly thoughtful and...

Dearest Jack, I scarcely know where to start to answer your letter - you seem to be in a busy whirl. I think you may have heard this...

Dearest Jack, Your letter about school work came today. I think both you and I need a little more time before we change plans which are...

It was the end of 2023 when a friend of the archive forward an article about an upcoming stamp exhibition at the National Print Museum in...

Sunday afternoon Dearest Jack, Today we have had all sorts of weather – rain – snow - and now the sun is shining beautifully but the...

Longtime readers of the Books About Letters series may recall our 2022 review of 'The London House' by Katherine Reay. When I saw 'The...

Dearest Jack, Your wheels left here Friday morning – crated and sent to Highland by express. Everything by rail is so slow now that you...

Our monthly series of book reviews centering around letter stories is back. For new and past readers, one of the most affecting books...

You are cordially invited to the world premiere of a short documentary made from just 4 of the some 30 'series' of letters in the Flea...

Hi Pappy: How are you doing these days? I hope O.K., I’m O.K. as usual and still at the old game, how long though I don’t know, things...

Hi Pappy: I received your letter and sure was glad to hear from you, I’ve been a little busy and tearing around some lately or I’d have...

Hi “Pappy” Schwenk: I sure was glad to hear from you, I thought you had gone into the army or something since I hadn’t heard from you for...

Hello Schwenk: Sorry I didn’t get around to writing sooner, but between the “blues” and the “pressure” here I’ve been kept so darn busy I...

Hello Schwenk, I sure was glad to hear from you, heck I thought the army had caught you up long ago, and thought you were in Italy or New...

Hi Pappy: At last I’m getting a little time to myself again, now I can catch up on my correspondence again, and boy it’s sure high time I...

Hi George I guess this is a surprise hearing from me, I would of wrote before this but I didn’t know your address. So Hartman gave it to...

Hi Pappy: (muskat Boone?) I guess you thought I would never get around to write you, well here I am, after a little struggle I’m getting...

Each month in our newsletter, we share letter stories from around the world. A few times a year we try to put together those stories in...

Flea Market Love Letters is going on the road! On November 28th we here at Flea Market Love Letters H.Q. will be in London, England...