On National Letter Writing Day, meet the woman who collects forgotten letters. " In attics, drawers and shoe boxes under beds there are hundreds of stories waiting to be told."

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Letter writing is a dying art, but fortunately, there are some wonderfully creative souls around resurrecting old love letters and breathing life into them. One of them is Liz Maguire, the love letter collector and originator of https://www.fleamarketloveletters.com , originally from Washington D.C. and now living in Dublin.
From her first acquisition as a teenager of a set of vintage love letters from a flea market, Liz now holds a collection of over 1600 letters. She told me,
‘Letters capture the essence of what it is to be living through history. In attics, and drawers and shoe boxes under beds there are hundreds of stories waiting to be told.’ Here we delve into her unique archive…
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