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Some members buy Letterjoy for themselves, as a weekly escape from the digital world into the nostalgia of paper, print, and history.

Others purchase Letterjoy to enjoy with their children. While our letters can be difficult to read for younger learners, some families find them to be a fun, fresh way to inspire a love of history in their household.

Many more discover Letterjoy by receiving it as a gift, for Christmas, their birthday, Mother's Day, or Father's Day.

Though most of our members live in the United States, we have members in thousands of cities in all fifty states and dozens of countries around the world.

So, with such a varied membership, what binds them all? Who is Letterjoy for? Anyone who really loves history. If they don't, you'll probably want to buy them something else.

We sift through hundreds of letters to find one great letter for our members.

Why do we go to the trouble? It's simple, really. We've learned, through years of practice, that finding amazing letters takes time.

Over 90% of the letters in the world's major manuscript collections aren't digitized. Of those that aren't, many of them are sorted by date rather than topic. This makes sifting through them tedious, but it also almost guarantees that, if we look long enough, we'll find something new and exciting for our readers.

That's why, again and again, we plod our way toward the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress, The National Archives, and other research libraries near our office in Washington and elsewhere in search of letters.

Sure, our fingers will be sore from gently flipping pages, our eyes strained from squinting at messy handwriting, but, once we sift out the congratulatory letters, the dinner invitations, and the telegrams from opinionated strangers (of which there are many), we'll almost always find you a letter worth reading.