Or better said how do you decide which letters to save. As we are unpacking I realize that I have a large number of letters that I am not sure I want just taking up space There's one correspondence that has it's own box but for the rest do you keep them all- toss them all or somewhere in between.


thanks,

Kurt

I've never had a great deal of paper correspondence, but I would say - store it in a filing-cabinet. They can be interesting things to read in 20, 30, 40, 50 years down the track. Roald Dahl sent a letter home to his mother every week while he was at boarding-school and every week from South Africa when he was an RAF pilot during the War. Unknown to him, his mother had stored every single one away in its original envelope and she gave them back to her son on her deathbed.

I'd say, don't throw them out, but find somewhere safe to put them, such as the aforementioned cabinet.

I keep them all, all stacked neatly in rubber banded stacks (oldest letters are on the bottom), then put them in an office box, then put the office box somewhere. But me, like Shangas, don't get much

I haven't really received many letters since dating days back in college. Of course, that's because I don't write many letters either! I think I've kept anything anyone ever wrote on and gave to me from college love letters to every scrap that my daughter has ever drawn or written on and gave to me! As to storage, College age mail is in a trunk in the basement, current stuff some where here on my desk and everything in between is in folders in my file cabinet.

...i have something about 300-400 letters laying around here (I started with letterwriting in 1996), i dont know exactly how much because they are everywhere, in allmost every corner, lol... ^^ ...

I have a dozen letters I keep in a treasure box.

A letter from my late husband hand-calligraphied in Tengwar.
A letter from the transplant recipient's family (from donating said late husband's organs) hand written on a yellow tablet.
Some letters from immediate family.

Other than that, I keep the ones with significant content in a folder by year.

E-mail.

I save them as rtf files. I printed out a few years of correspondence with one of my best friends, and the stack was about eight inches high (double-sided, 1" margins, single-spaced, size ten font).

That was just one friend, just a few years.

When my father died, I made a special box that I decorated with mementoes that reminded me of him or were from him (postcards, photos, even napkins with his initials) and as I ran across his letters, I'd put them in that box.

Then I have an old "I love Lucy" lunch pail into which I've put all the FPN'ers postcards and letters.

Now that I think about it, it was only my dad and FPN'ers who've loved writing with pens (other correspondence is mostly email).

I have been involved in snail-mailing folks since I joined Pentrace way back. I probably have about 350 letters. I keep them , both the letters and the envelopes they came in, in a filing cabinet. I have a filing cabinet, purchased at the Property Dispositions office ( for $20.00), specifically for this purpose.