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It's #WorldLetterWritingDay! For 50 years, the simple act of writing a letter has been a powerful tool to urge Congress to end hunger. Every voice matters. Go to our website to learn how you can get involved today! https://www.bread.org/offering-letters/
Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! To mark this occasion, here's a brief write-up of some of the letters I read @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today, between William and Eleanor Porden and various correspondents. Turnips make a very odd appearance! eleanorporden.com/2025/09/01/h...
WORLD LETTER WRITING DAY
Call him old-fashioned, but Ol’ Turnip Head can never resist putting his adoration towards his partners in writing.
Candlelight makes a nice touch to his process.
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“Happy #WorldLetterWritingDay! 🖋️ Since 2014, this day has inspired handwritten notes in a world full of instant messages. Who will you write to today? Share a snapshot of your pen + paper setup! #LetterWritingDay”
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Got me thinking how wonderful it used to be to receive letters and to write them! I had a few pen pals in my younger days. I also remember the joy at receiving those blue “par avion” letters from my late step-dad whilst he was working out in South Africa ♥️
A digital graphic on a beige background. The text "Got a family letter that makes you laugh, cry, or scratch your head?" is at the top in a brown, serif font. Below the text is a drawing of a sealed envelope with a brown wax seal and a black fountain pen with a gold tip.
Do you have a letter like this tucked away in your family archive?
Let’s celebrate the quirks, tenderness, and legacy of handwritten history.
📮 #WorldLetterWritingDay #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #MtClemens #Michigan
A faded, wrinkled letter from April 1943. The letter is handwritten in cursive and fills the page. The letter is written on American Red Cross paper and is signed by PFC Jack K. Dougherty.
A faded, wrinkled envelope from the American Red Cross is shown in black and white. The envelope is addressed to "Mr. & Mrs. Edd Dougherty, 140 Hubbard Ave., Mt. Clemens, Michigan." A circular postmark from the U.S. Army Postal Service is dated "APR 16, 1943." There is a red cross symbol on the upper left and a number stamped "36197934." Handwritten text on the upper right corner reads, "Free." There is also a square stamp on the left side that says "PASSED BY ARMY EXAMINER" and a signature from an examiner.
The second page is just as lively. Jack’s handwriting dances across the paper, preserving a moment in time.
#WorldLetterWritingDay #WWII #Vintage #Army
A black and white photo of a young man and woman standing outside in front of a house. The man on the left wears suspenders over a white shirt, dark pants, and a serious expression. The woman on the right, with dark hair, has one hand on her hip and is wearing a dark dress with a light-colored collar.
Edd & Dort
Meet Edd & Dorothy-my grandparents. During WWII, Edd drove trucks in Mt. Clemens, MI while his brothers served overseas. Dort was pregnant with their 2nd daughter-my mom. #WorldLetterWritingDay #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #MtClemens
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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
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! 😄✍️✉️🎉
Ellisland, 1791 Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus. R.B. Robert Burns | Letter to a critic, 1791 | The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
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it's #worldletterwritingday ! sit down and write someone a letter! while you cook a pot of soup! because today is the first day of #souptember! #snailmail #mail #letters #goodmail #soup 🍲💌
Sabia que hoje se comemora o dia Mundial da Escrita de Cartas ? Me diz aí pra qual personagem dos Games vocês mandaria uma carta? 📧
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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.
📨 On #WorldLetterWritingDay a shoutout to Margaret Thatcher who wrote some marvellous letters after 1990.
📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' features a number:
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😇 Shoutout to Douglas Hurd too, who received some of them (🤭)!
#Thatcher100
Remember the good old days when getting mail was exciting? What if we brought back that feeling of surprise and connection?
This #WorldLetterWritingDay, we invite you to find a Pen Pal!
Reach out to a local organisation like @thecareruk.bsky.social and find a new best friend
First page of a handwritten letter beginning "I assure you it is no easy matter for me to express how truly grateful I am..."
Second page of letter with a fancy signature at the bottom of the page
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!
Second page of a letter written by Gertrude Bell, writing about a visit to the circus.
First page of a letter written by Gertrude Bell in March 1878. She writes about her dolls.
On #WorldLetterWritingDay here is the earliest letter in our archive written by prolific letter writer Gertrude Bell, written when she was just 8 years old.
This is one of over 1,400 of Gertrude's letters we've digitised that you can now explore on our Gertrude Bell website: gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk
One of our project blog posts but resharing for #WorldLetterWritingDay.
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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 🤩🦞🐟🦪💌
On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive
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#CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social
First of two parts of a letter sent by Miss J. Kitts of Devonport, a machinist of clothing, sent to the Trade Board in protest at the low minimum wage set by the Board, 1912. Cyclo No. 97. STRICTLY PRIVATE and CONFIDENTIAL for use of Members of the Trade Board only. OBJECTION received from:- Miss J. Kitts, 9, Wilton Street, Stoke, Devonport. File 11-3. 8th April, 1912. Sir, In the receipt of the notice, I am surprised to think It has come a farthing less, instead of a farthing more. I would like for the employer to stand by a worker for an hour and see the amount of work a worker has to do in a garment in an hour to earn that, and then judge to see if she does not deserve the higher rate. I for one can speak from experience of 22 years in the Wholesale clothing trade and know what hard work means to be able to get just a living wage. I started at the age of thirteen getting half crown for the first six months, 3/- the next six months after that I was put under a machinist to learn Trousers and Boys’ knickers getting a third of what a machinist earned my wages averaged eight shillings a week in the busiest time and where no trade, go home. For four years I was a learner until there was a vacancy of a machine for me to go on. I was able then to earn good money for a few years until they started cutting down the prices owing to foreign competition, we were told, so we had to submit as it was our living, at last it was getting so bad, I had to leave as I had my widow mother to help support, this last five years and half and I could not afford to work for little.
Second of two parts of a letter sent by Miss J. Kitts of Devonport, a machinist of clothing, sent to the Trade Board in protest at the low minimum wage set by the Board, 1912. Cyclo No. 97. 2. I think all workers in a clothing factory deserve to get good wages, having to sit all day in closely packed work- rooms with all the noisy machinery going, bustle and activity and hardly any fresh air and no recreation and such long hours. No wonder that one half of the workers have such bad health. My own health has suffered through it and my doctor tells me I shall he no better until I leave and get something that would take me in the air more and there are hundreds more I know like me. I must say that the great increase, in rising the prices of everything that one has to live on and yet not rising the wages to pay for it I think it a great shame. I only hope this letter will do something in getting a higher rate as all workers deserve it. Yours faithfully, (sd) J. Kitts. One of the District Workers.
On #WorldLetterWritingDay, "One of the District Workers" speaks out!
In 1912, faced with rising prices & falling wages, Devonport machinist Miss Kitts described a textile worker's plight in a letter to the Trade Board
From our digitised ‘sweated trades’ collection at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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"There was another anonymous letter writer." - HAMZA SYED, The Meeting and the Mole, The Trojan Horse Affair #TheTrojanHorseAffair #WorldLetterWritingDay #HamzaSyed
Sep 1: Today is World Letter Writing Day! https://www.cute-calendar.com/44655 #WorldLetterWritingDay
