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

Dad’s typewriter

IT arrived a few weeks ago – with the UPS delivery guy being so thoughtful in how he handed the big box to me.   I was beaming with pride in announcing, “It’s my Dad’s typewriter.  My Mom sent it to me for my birthday!”

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Helen Rittersporn

Discovering TeaMap powered by adagio teas

Earlier this week in my blog post “In praise of a cup of tea” I concluded with encouraging us to make the time and one could do a search in your area to locate a Tea room for planning an outing with a friend.   As

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Helen Rittersporn

Pure Imagination

Today’s blogpost is celebrating our pure imagination inspired from the song “Pure Imagination” from the 1971 movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory“.   The movie is an adaptation of the 1964 book by Roald Dahl.   It tells the story of Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum, this was

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Helen Rittersporn

“MARK TWAIN’S LETTERS 1853-1910, COMPLETE”

Today, May 27, is the day Mark Twain’s bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, Missouri in 1926.   In looking for a photo of that bronze statue I came across “The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete” – they are online at Project Gutenberg

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Helen Rittersporn

In praise of a cup of tea

Today, for many of us we are returning to our daily routines from a three-day-Holiday-weekend.   There are the stresses of pouring the normal entire work week into four days this week instead of five days.   Our normal rituals and morning routines may be off

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Helen Rittersporn

Forever® Medal of Honor stamp debuts today

Today on Memorial Day, May 25, 2015 we honor our military who have died for our country.  The new Medal of Honor: Vietnam War Forever® stamps will be dedicated by the U.S. Postal Service at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC

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Helen Rittersporn

Serving without the camera during WWII

In thinking of Memorial Day Holiday Weekend and WWII it feels like that was a different era and what came to mind is the number of movie stars who volunteered and served in WWII without the camera on them.   From what I read in researching for today’s blogpost,

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