So we come across some interesting stories, news articles and blogs about Letters and Letter Writing from time to time, and we thought it’d be good to share them here. Please feel free to blog or Tweet about them (and us!) as you see fit.

Here’s a story about a Love Letter being found in a bottle on a beach, with a locket of hair in it. It tells of a forlorn French woman who is coming to terms with her lover ending the relationship and returning to his wife. Here is a quick excerpt from the Love Letter:

”These magic moments are pure secret. The secret of life and pleasure without limits. In twenty years, it will still be here, the previous moments of happiness, when life will get dreary, we will be able to tap into these memories to remember what it is to live again.”

Link to French Love Letter in a Bottle
Here’s a Blog about the Love Letter story


On the topic of Love Letters, Here’s a Love Letter to an inanimate object, the Golden Gate Bridge…..and a quick excerpt:

” Thank you for your fast track lanes and charming gift shop. Thank you for your film and television appearances and your prominence in Sleep Train and Lexus commercials. Thank you, old friend, for the reassurance that when I hear a bridge breaks, I know it’s not you.”

Link to Love Letter to the Golden Gate Bridge


No compilation of Love Letters would be complete without Bono’s (from U2) Love Letter to America.  Excerpt:

“I don’t speak for the rest of the world. Sometimes I think I do — but as my bandmates will quickly (and loudly) point out, I don’t even speak for one small group of four musicians. But I will venture to say that in the farthest corners of the globe, the president’s words are more than a pop song people want to hear on the radio. They are lifelines.”

Link to Bono’s Love Letter to America

And finally, here’s a Love Letter mail during World War II, that finally was delivered….64 years later.  A quick excerpt:

‘Don’t get the idea I am hors de combat with an American nurse holding my hand!’

Link to WWII Love Letter

So perhaps it’s time for each of us to get busy writing that next Love Letter that will make headlines.

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Fellas,

Valentine’s Day is coming up just over a week, and we all know that for many of you, this is the first thought you’ve given to the “Big Day”.  Of course you’re going to scramble to squeak in that last minute reservation at the new hip place in town.  Of course she won’t notice that the 10pm reservation was the very last one, and only one, they had available.  She’ll also probably think the “table for two” out by the valet was their most requested and hard to get table.

Dinner, in a word, is “covered”.  “Done”, “taken care of”, “whadoyoumeanIhaventthoughtaboutValentinesyet?”, “I got it under control”.  Nice work!

However, why not go all out, and get all romantic this year.  Why not send her a letter that shows her you’ve been thinking of her.  Let her know she is the Apple of your Eye, the Jewel of your Crown, the One for You! Yeah, a Love Letter sounds great!  But let us guess, you are no Danielle Steele when it comes to wordsmithing.

Dont’ worry, we’ve got you covered.  iwiLetter.com provides you with many Sample Love Letters that you can choose from.  Pick the one that seems the closest to what you are trying to say to her, then edit it to make it your own.  Or, well, just send it like it is.  Let her know that your heart is her’s, and you hope for her heart to be your’s.  Let her know that your life was like a dark night before, with only a few distant stars to light it, but that she came as a blazing comet and lit it up, rising over the horizon and streaking through.

Write your Sweatheart a Love Letter today!

Send her a Love Letter this Valentine’s Day.  Let her know you care.  Let iwiLetter.com help, let our Sample Love Letters be the prose that guides your pen….and your evening

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send a letter to a prison inmate

Do you have a family member or loved one in prison that you want to communicate with?  Phone calls and visitations are few and far between so why not send them a letter?  Imagine the hours and hours alone a prisoner must spend each day.  Wouldn’t a letter from a loved one brighten up their day?  A letter is something a prison inmate can read, save, and re-read over and over again…it’s something that can remind them of home, family, friends and loved ones….something they can use to “get away” from the countless hours isolated and by themselves. 

Even if you don’t know someone currently in prison, why not become Pen Pals with a prison inmate, brighten their days and make yourself feel better in the process.  Getting to know someone in circumstances that are completely different than your own can be very interesting and rewarding. 

WriteaPrisoner.com is a site that allows people to find prisoners that have indicated they are available and interested in starting a pen pal relationship.  Some great info about becoming pen pals with an inmate can be found HERE.  There are tips for writing to prisoners, some ideas of what to write about, some expectations of what you may experience, etc.  Here’s a list of sites that help you find a Prison Pen Pal, via Yahoo! Directory.  

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iwiLetter.com is sponsoring a Love Letter writing contest that provides the perfect opportunity for all of you modern day Lovebirds to gain the fame you deserve.  Write your best Love Letter and it can become part of our growing selection of sample letters available to the world at http://www.iwiLetter.com .  Imagine your Love Letter being used by thousands of other Lovebirds around the globe!  All it takes is putting pen to paper, or rather, fingers to the keyboard.

No one can deny the power of a really good torch song, the stirring words of undying love.  Phil Collins does it best; but maybe you can do it better!  Nothing tells someone they are truly loved like a real Love Letter that they can hold in their hands.  With Valentine’s Day coming up, make sure your darling, your dearest, your beloved knows how you feel.