I got a letter in the post today; a proper letter that wasn’t a bill or an advertisement. Maybe it’s just me, but I always think there’s something so much more personal, so much more exciting and satisfying about receiving a physical letter as opposed to an email. So to celebrate the almost forgotten art of letter writing, I went looking through my travel photos for letters big and small, like these buttons in a Manhattan elevator leading the way to my favourite city park, the Highline….

… and this gorgeous etched glass pattern containing the letters GCT; a logo dotted all around Grand Central Terminal.

A rather hilarious collection of letters, one of the many names memorialized on the floor tiles of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

One of the greatest volumes of letters in the English language, Shakespeare’s First Folio at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Four of my favourite letters in one fabulous sculpture by Robert Indiana in Philadelphia.

So get your letters at the ready for your own interpretation of this week’s theme. If you would like to join in (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:

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xxx Ailsa

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. – Arthur Schopenhauer

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller