On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive
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September 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive
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On #WorldLetterWritingDay read the blog post by
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social on Alice Thornton's letters. While Thornton is best known for writing four books about her life, we have traced 25 autograph letters (and one copy).
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
#EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ 📚
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social on Alice Thornton's letters. While Thornton is best known for writing four books about her life, we have traced 25 autograph letters (and one copy).
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
#EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ 📚
Finding Alice Thornton's Letters
Blog article - 1 September 2023
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When I posted this yesterday, I was simply feeling nostalgic and had no idea that today, 1 September, would be #WorldLetterWritingDay ...
September 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM
When I posted this yesterday, I was simply feeling nostalgic and had no idea that today, 1 September, would be #WorldLetterWritingDay ...
On #WorldLetterWritingDay a shopping list sent by Heraclides to his brother Petechois in the third century CE in Greco-Roman Egypt – poultry, bread, lupines, chick peas, kidney beans and fenugreek for supper please.
September 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
On #WorldLetterWritingDay a shopping list sent by Heraclides to his brother Petechois in the third century CE in Greco-Roman Egypt – poultry, bread, lupines, chick peas, kidney beans and fenugreek for supper please.
Got out the A4 Basildon Bond writing paper especially for today! And remember if you still want to be a part of #WorldLetterWritingDay, the night is still young! 😄✍️✉️🎉
September 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Got out the A4 Basildon Bond writing paper especially for today! And remember if you still want to be a part of #WorldLetterWritingDay, the night is still young! 😄✍️✉️🎉
Sabia que hoje se comemora o dia Mundial da Escrita de Cartas ? Me diz aí pra qual personagem dos Games vocês mandaria uma carta? 📧
#worldletterwritingday
#worldletterwritingday
September 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sabia que hoje se comemora o dia Mundial da Escrita de Cartas ? Me diz aí pra qual personagem dos Games vocês mandaria uma carta? 📧
#worldletterwritingday
#worldletterwritingday
Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay, people! I know technically every day is a letter writing day, but let’s join forces and all write one today. Someone out there will really appreciate getting yours even if they had no idea they would. It’s like sending happiness into the future. 🌏💌
September 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay, people! I know technically every day is a letter writing day, but let’s join forces and all write one today. Someone out there will really appreciate getting yours even if they had no idea they would. It’s like sending happiness into the future. 🌏💌
Hope you’ve all had a wonderful #WorldLetterWritingDay, and maybe written a letter or two to some special someones. Don’t worry if you missed it, every day is a letter writing day really... ☺️✍️✉️👍
September 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Hope you’ve all had a wonderful #WorldLetterWritingDay, and maybe written a letter or two to some special someones. Don’t worry if you missed it, every day is a letter writing day really... ☺️✍️✉️👍
#WorldLetterWritingDay ✒️
Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌
Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻
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#Wales #History
Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌
Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest...
#Wales #History
'My dearest Sarah' | A Bridgend Love Letter.
While going through the National Museum of Wales Collections, I came across a love-letter.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#WorldLetterWritingDay ✒️
Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌
Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest...
#Wales #History
Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌
Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest...
#Wales #History
It's World Letter Writing Day!
We look after letters from many enthusiastic correspondents, incl. writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats & environmentalists.
Search our archives here! ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archives
We look after letters from many enthusiastic correspondents, incl. writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats & environmentalists.
Search our archives here! ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archives
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It's World Letter Writing Day!
We look after letters from many enthusiastic correspondents, incl. writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats & environmentalists.
Search our archives here! ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archives
We look after letters from many enthusiastic correspondents, incl. writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats & environmentalists.
Search our archives here! ➡️ lib-archives.ex.ac.uk
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archives
On World Letter Writing Day, we're sharing our love for letters, one of the most popular formats in archives 💌
Did you know we hold letters from writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats, environmentalists - & more!
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archive
Did you know we hold letters from writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats, environmentalists - & more!
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archive
September 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
On World Letter Writing Day, we're sharing our love for letters, one of the most popular formats in archives 💌
Did you know we hold letters from writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats, environmentalists - & more!
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archive
Did you know we hold letters from writers, poets, students, folklorists, nuns, journalists, historians, politicians, diplomats, environmentalists - & more!
#WorldLetterWritingDay #Archive
Its #WorldLetterWritingDay! Alice Thornton frequently communicated by letter and we have been able to trace 25 of her holograph letters (and one copy), with the latest written only a year or two before her death. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Finding Alice Thornton's Letters
Blog article - 1 September 2023
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
September 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Its #WorldLetterWritingDay! Alice Thornton frequently communicated by letter and we have been able to trace 25 of her holograph letters (and one copy), with the latest written only a year or two before her death. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
For this #WorldLetterWritingDay we have this cross-hatched letter from Admiral G Henderson to his father in 1840. Cross-hatching was a way of saving paper & reducing the cost of postage: which depended on the distance the letter had to go & the number of sheets of paper. #NorfolkHistory
September 1, 2026 at 8:37 AM
For this #WorldLetterWritingDay we have this cross-hatched letter from Admiral G Henderson to his father in 1840. Cross-hatching was a way of saving paper & reducing the cost of postage: which depended on the distance the letter had to go & the number of sheets of paper. #NorfolkHistory
I do love it when you find a relevant stamp for the recipient of a letter… (hoping he might join in with BBC Radio Cornwall’s #WishYouWereHereJames challenge, and tell all his Cornish friends) #WorldLetterWritingDay 🤩🦞🐟🦪💌
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I do love it when you find a relevant stamp for the recipient of a letter… (hoping he might join in with BBC Radio Cornwall’s #WishYouWereHereJames challenge, and tell all his Cornish friends) #WorldLetterWritingDay 🤩🦞🐟🦪💌
September 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
#JCKaelin: Evidently Mr. McCartney was fond of writing letters during his Beatles Days :)
#OTD #TDIH #September1: Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! #LetterWritingDay #LetterWriting #WorldDays #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #September1: Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! #LetterWritingDay #LetterWriting #WorldDays #MusicSky
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The Beatles - Paperback Writer
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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September 1, 2026 at 2:47 AM
#JCKaelin: Evidently Mr. McCartney was fond of writing letters during his Beatles Days :)
#OTD #TDIH #September1: Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! #LetterWritingDay #LetterWriting #WorldDays #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #September1: Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! #LetterWritingDay #LetterWriting #WorldDays #MusicSky
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September 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Neben seinen Romanen, Erzählungen und Essays hat #ThomasMann ein gewaltiges Briefwerk hinterlassen. Entdecken Sie dieses passend zum #WorldLetterWritingDay in der „Große|n kommentierte|n Frankfurter Ausgabe“ in unserer Leselounge: portal.haab.klassik-stiftung.de/Record/32930...
September 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Neben seinen Romanen, Erzählungen und Essays hat #ThomasMann ein gewaltiges Briefwerk hinterlassen. Entdecken Sie dieses passend zum #WorldLetterWritingDay in der „Große|n kommentierte|n Frankfurter Ausgabe“ in unserer Leselounge: portal.haab.klassik-stiftung.de/Record/32930...
Thanks to widespread literacy, exchange of letters now is seen as matter between the sender and the addressee. But in 15th century, it likely involved four different individuals: the sender, the writer, the recipient and the reader. scroll.in/article/9805...
✍️Aparna Kapadia
#WorldLetterWritingDay
✍️Aparna Kapadia
#WorldLetterWritingDay
September 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thanks to widespread literacy, exchange of letters now is seen as matter between the sender and the addressee. But in 15th century, it likely involved four different individuals: the sender, the writer, the recipient and the reader. scroll.in/article/9805...
✍️Aparna Kapadia
#WorldLetterWritingDay
✍️Aparna Kapadia
#WorldLetterWritingDay
For #WorldLetterWritingDay here's a lovely note from a patient to surgeon William Macewen, thanking him for saving his life after a gunshot wound. Check out the signature too!
September 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
For #WorldLetterWritingDay here's a lovely note from a patient to surgeon William Macewen, thanking him for saving his life after a gunshot wound. Check out the signature too!
From pre-carbon paper days we have this Wet Copy Letter Book #WorldLetterWritingDay
• letter written in ink on paper
• page of copybook’s thin tissue-like pages moistened
• OG letter was placed face down onto the damp page
• book was closed & pressed
• ink transferred onto damp tissue paper
• dried
• letter written in ink on paper
• page of copybook’s thin tissue-like pages moistened
• OG letter was placed face down onto the damp page
• book was closed & pressed
• ink transferred onto damp tissue paper
• dried
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
From pre-carbon paper days we have this Wet Copy Letter Book #WorldLetterWritingDay
• letter written in ink on paper
• page of copybook’s thin tissue-like pages moistened
• OG letter was placed face down onto the damp page
• book was closed & pressed
• ink transferred onto damp tissue paper
• dried
• letter written in ink on paper
• page of copybook’s thin tissue-like pages moistened
• OG letter was placed face down onto the damp page
• book was closed & pressed
• ink transferred onto damp tissue paper
• dried
Today is World Letter Writing Day!
Bombardier C.A. Flanders writing a letter from the deck of a boat on the Scheldt River during the Second World War in 1944.
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#WorldLetterWritingDay
Bombardier C.A. Flanders writing a letter from the deck of a boat on the Scheldt River during the Second World War in 1944.
📸LAC 3209353
#WorldLetterWritingDay
September 1, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Today is World Letter Writing Day!
Bombardier C.A. Flanders writing a letter from the deck of a boat on the Scheldt River during the Second World War in 1944.
📸LAC 3209353
#WorldLetterWritingDay
Bombardier C.A. Flanders writing a letter from the deck of a boat on the Scheldt River during the Second World War in 1944.
📸LAC 3209353
#WorldLetterWritingDay
It’s #WorldLetterWritingDay! 🖊️✉️
Communication is a central part of science work, and our JIC Archives contain many handwritten letters between well-known scientists, discussing their experiments and findings 🔬
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Communication is a central part of science work, and our JIC Archives contain many handwritten letters between well-known scientists, discussing their experiments and findings 🔬
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September 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
It’s #WorldLetterWritingDay! 🖊️✉️
Communication is a central part of science work, and our JIC Archives contain many handwritten letters between well-known scientists, discussing their experiments and findings 🔬
🧵
Communication is a central part of science work, and our JIC Archives contain many handwritten letters between well-known scientists, discussing their experiments and findings 🔬
🧵