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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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Oct 161 min read
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!...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Oct 163 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Jul 192 min read
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" by Linda Barrett Osborne. A nonfiction look at the...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 273 min read
Waxing on about Wax Seals.
An anecdotal history on wax seals.
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Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 152 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 292 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 293 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 282 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 201 min read
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 --...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 123 min read
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Feb 132 min read
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 --...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Jan 312 min read
'Stamp of Approval': Visiting The National Print Museum.
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Jan 243 min read
Books About Letters: "The Berlin Letters"
Longtime readers of the Books About Letters series may recall our 2022 review of 'The London House' by Katherine Reay. When I saw 'The...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Jan 43 min read
Books About Letters: "The Postcard"
Our monthly series of book reviews centering around letter stories is back. For new and past readers, one of the most affecting books...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Jan 22 min read
Vintage Love Letters Come Alive.
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Nov 23, 20231 min read
Love Letter Stories.
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Interview with Nick Hilder : "How to Write Love Letters"
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...
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Flea Market Love Letters
Nov 23, 20233 min read
'DO': 10th Anniversary of Letters Live 2023.
If you squint, you'll see Benedict Cumberbatch's back several stories down as he read my favorite letter from the Letters Live series....
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Flea Market Love Letters
Oct 20, 20231 min read
Watch Here: 'With Love,': Stories from the Flea Market Love Letters Archive
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Thursday October 19th, 2023 for the first official event hosted by Flea Market Love Letters! It...
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