Welcome letter writing enthusiasts and those new and/or rediscovering the joys of letter writing. We celebrate letter writing here!

AnchoredScraps letter writing blog encourages old-style correspondence through handwritten letters between kindred souls since 2015

Whether the topic focuses on buying your first fountain pen, downloading a printable for jotting down a few whimsical sentiments, sending a post card, dusting off your typewriter, the joys of selecting vintage or new postage to our envelope cachets, adding to our stationery stash, or simply hand-writing a letter – it’s all fun and part of the journey with a blog post by Helen Rittersporn. 

Here you will find ongoing encouragement to regularly carve out a few precious moments to connect with others via “old” styles of correspondence, specifically in letter writing. 

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Helen Rittersporn

Alan Jay Lerner Letters

Today with it being Sunday and being able to slow the pace down a little I wanted to mention a book I have ordered about Alan Jay Lerner Letters, it is entitled: Alan Jay Lerner – A Lyricist’s Letters by Dominic McHugh published in 2014. With all of the rain

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Helen Rittersporn

Astronaut Alan Shepard Letter

Astronaut Alan Shepard Letter that he wrote to his parents is our blog topic today given on this day April 9, 1959 NASA introduced America’s First Astronauts for Project Mercury. Here we have a letter written by him just a few months prior to

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Helen Rittersporn

Post Mark Collectors Club

Post Mark Collectors Club is our blog topic today exploring collecting postmarks and postal history – the group was founded in 1946.   Happy Friday! Today we are just covering some highlights.  Their scope is massive and I can see returning in a future blog

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Helen Rittersporn

Mr Zip Vintage Novelty Items

Mr Zip Vintage Novelty Items is our AnchoredScraps.com blog topic today with Mr. Zip US Mail Lunchbox, 1963 Mailbox Tin Bank, and Vintage Pinback Button. From my June blog post last year on Mr. Zip – “In 2013, the Post Office re-introduced Mr. ZIP to

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Helen Rittersporn

Contract Postal Units

Contract Postal Units is our AnchoredScraps.com blog topic today for awareness the next time you are out and about and notice their sign. Contract Postal Units Recently when out of town I noticed a sign stating that inside the ACE Hardware store it included a Contract

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Helen Rittersporn

Pocket Letters

With National Letter Writing Month underway today we are looking at Pocket Letters.  At some point it had to happen merging scrapbook elements with your pen-pal letters. This is a new spin on writing pen-pals – make that now calling them Pocket Letter Pals

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Helen Rittersporn

Inspirational Basketball Coach Letters

Inspirational Basketball Coach Letters is kicking off our Monday! The blog topic is perfect timing with the Final NCAA Championship game tonight.  We are looking today at inspirational letters by Coach Jerry Wainwright from an article in the Wall Street Journal six months ago. Inspirational Basketball Coach

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Helen Rittersporn

Calamity Jane Letters

Calamity Jane Letters is our blog topic on this Sunday as we look at the book “Calamity Jane’s Letters to Her Daughter” written by Calamity Jane (Jane Cannary Hickok).  Given today, April 03, is Doris Day’s birthday (age 92 !)  it was a natural to have Calamity

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