Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Hannah Brencher
American Letter Enthusiast, Copywriter and Creative Consultant, started a global initiative that encourages strangers to exchange love letters
"I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked."
"While other kids were BBM-ing their parents, I was literally waiting by the mailbox … to see how the weekend had gone."
"To sit down, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through … is an art form that does not fall down to the Goliath of ‘get faster.'"