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

“USPS Style Meets Sentiment”

Today I am starting off today’s blogpost with saying Thank you!   It was wonderful yesterday to receive several emails from individual AnchoredScraps.com email subscribers sharing articles they had come across about letter writing and wanting to share them! The email from my friend yesterday at our

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Helen Rittersporn

“Dear Miss Liberty: Letters to the Statue of Liberty”

With today being the 130th anniversary of the arrival of Lady Liberty to New York Harbor it was special to come across the 1986 book “Dear Miss Liberty: Letters to the Statue of Liberty” written by Lynn Bundesen. Today I was able to order it on Amazon including shipping for

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Helen Rittersporn

Remembering “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”

As we continue to approach Father’s Day there is a classic movie today that I wanted to pause and have us remember and (hopefully) make the time to watch soon.   Today we are in England remembering the distinguished career of a school teacher (spanning

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Helen Rittersporn

“Life with Father”

Welcome to the new week at AnchoredScraps.com!  With Father’s Day approaching, I wanted to kick-off the week with remembering the movie “Life with Father“.  This classic family movie is set in 1883 in New York. This movie will be new to some of you, forgotten by some of

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Helen Rittersporn

“The little book of the flag”

With today being Flag Day it has been a delight to discover “The little book of the flag” written by Eva March Tappan (1854-1930), published in 1917.    There are numerous download options at that link for no charge, book contributor New York Public Library, Internet

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Helen Rittersporn

AnchoredScraps Mail bag

Happy Saturday!  With writing a daily blog about letter writing I am now seeing more related stories when reading. There were four recent items I wanted to share in case you had not seen them yet.  Why not see how many of them are news to

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Helen Rittersporn

Inspired from the beach

Having just gotten back from a fantastic afternoon at the beach with family I am inspired to make sure to return to walk on the sand more often.  I will be writing about today’s fun day in the sun in several letters to new pen-pals which will

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