Flea Market Love Letters

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 --...

This March the Book About Letters is Shaun Usher's 'Letters of Note' . A must-have for the letter lover's bookshelf, this anthology...

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 --...

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...

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

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...

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...

If you squint, you'll see Benedict Cumberbatch's back several stories down as he read my favorite letter from the Letters Live series....