“Finding a letter that’s not been read by many people, and putting it on the website or putting it in the book; that’s like a natural high.” Shaun Usher shares his curated collection in – Letters of Note Volume 2. “You get to see people at their most guarded and people in their natural state. It’s a good way to learn about people and history….Humans are naturally nosy about fellow humans. This is a legitimate way of snooping.”

( collecting of letters) “It’s just a part of me now. It’s an urge, an uncontrollable urge. –


A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

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