June 2022 Newsletter.

Hello Letter Lovers...

Can you crack the code? 💌

Happy June, snailmailer! This month I thought we could do something a little different. Click here to try your hand at deciphering three handwriting samples from 1863, 1917, and 1932. Good luck!

Treasure Hunting

Flea Market Love Letters will be 5 years old next month, so it was fitting that recently we got the chance to go "back to the roots" of how it all started: picking over a flea market! Learn more about what goodies we found, here. 

Design a Postcard

Are you artistically inclined? Would you love to see your art on THE official "World Postcard Day" postcard? Learn more about how you can submit a design, here. World Postcard Day is October 1st, 2022.

Positive Post

The Write For Your Life Postcards are now out in the world. They've winged their way to the Philippines, the U.K., the U.S.A., Norway, France, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. Thanks to all who wrote in for one -- when they arrive, please share. It's part of the fun to see where they end up.

The Write for Your Life Postcards feature a handful of truly lovely letter quotes from "Write For Your Life", the new book by Anna Quindlen. Flea Market Love Letters if very generously included. You can learn more, here. 

Write More Letters

Thanks to friend of the archive, Raf, for sharing this snap of his Write More Letters mug in beautiful, sunny Dun Laoighre in Dublin! The Write More Letters Project supports the charity "Hope For the Warriors" which benefits U.S. Veterans and Military families. You can learn more, here. 

A Book About Letters

This month for our "Books About Letters" series we're taking a look at a nonfiction gem "As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story". 

If you love that Flea Market Love Letters showcases real letters from real individuals, chances are you'll enjoy this memoir which introduces a daughter to a father she never met, via letters he left behind.

"Collector Corner"

This is where I like to share articles, videos, interviews etc. Basically, all things letters from around the Internet! Do you know of an interesting letter story? Reply to this email and I will feature it in an upcoming newsletter. 

"Dear Selma: A World War II Love Letter Romance" 

When Bernard Brown's daughter found her parents World War II love letters, she approached her widowed father with an idea: What about a book?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeCYhscqG8

Talking Letters

Congrats to friends of the archive -- the lovely Dinah of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society and Liz Kentish talking From Me to You--  who were recently featured in a piece in Women's Weekly. We've got Jane's book on our TBR ('To Be Read') list now, that's for sure! Perhaps a possible 'Book About Letters' in the future? We shall see!