Letters of love

AN ENTHUSIAST OF THE WRITTEN WORD, LIZ MAGUIRE FOUNDED FLEA MARKET LOVE LETTERS, AN ARCHIVE OF FOUND CORRESPONDENCE DATING FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS

THE STORY BEHIND THE DIGITAL VINTAGE LOVE LETTER ARCHIVE, Flea Market Love Letters, starts like all good romantic stories should: with a teenage girl discovering a shoebox of yellow paper on a card table at a flea market in Skippack, Pennsylvania, on a hot summer’s day. It was almost a decade ago when I found that shoebox of letters from the 1920s, and it began a whole new adventure for me. I began sharing the letters that I ‘found’ – sourced from flea markets and (in pandemic times) online auctions – on Instagram in 2017. Our apartment was remodelled after a fire that took place before my husband and I moved in, and I became consumed with the idea that if it went up again the letters would go with it.…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2022

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