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08/06/2026

There is a hill near Lifton, just south of the A30, where a little copse of beech trees stands right on the line between Devon and Cornwall. Officially, they are Cookworthy Knapp. To everyone who has ever driven past and felt their heart lift at that familiar green shape, they are simply the Nearly Home Trees.
Nobody quite agrees on why they were planted. A heartbroken farmer and a heart-shaped wood, some say. An old quarry, the landowner wanted to hide, say others, rather less romantically. Either way, they have been gathering names and lifting hearts for over a century.
Ella has written home about them, and the postcard and poster are in the collection now. Find out what arrives in the post.
Every picture tells a story.

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05/06/2026

Every pictures tells a story! But, the poster is only half of it, each poster arrives with a letter from Ella, telling the true history of the place in the picture. A piece of art for your wall, and a story for your imagination.

12/05/2026

A ten-gun brig with an unremarkable career.
A twenty-two-year-old whose nose nearly cost him the job.
Five years of seasickness. Twenty years of sitting on what he found.
Ella is in Woolwich on the anniversary of the launch of HMS Beagle.
The May 11th letter is available now.

10/05/2026

Know someone with a 10th of May birthday?

This letter was written from Promontory Summit, Utah. The exact spot where America's first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10th, 1869.
Ella writes home about the golden spike (fashioned from 17.6-karat gold, removed immediately after the ceremony, now in a museum named after the man who missed the ceremonial swing), the two locomotives that met nose-to-nose and never met again, and the twelve thousand Chinese workers whose contribution was largely written out of the official record for the better part of a century.

It is a proper piece of history, printed on A4 and posted to you or directly to your recipient, and it arrives with a date on it that means something.

Letters Home: On This Day. A personalised piece of history.
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09/05/2026

On the 9th of May, 1874, two horses pulled Bombay's first tram out of Colaba and into history. The fare was three annas. The pace was five miles per hour.
Our May 9th letter is written from Colaba Causeway, where that first route began. Ella walks the original journey northward through Crawford Market, a building donated to the city in 1869 by the Parsi merchant Cowasji Jehangir, designed by William Emerson, and decorated with friezes by Lockwood Kipling. Ella follows the tram network through ninety years of city life, from horse power to electric cars to double-deckers, to the evening in 1964 when a crowd gathered at Bori Bunder simply to say goodbye.

Printed on both sides of a single A4 sheet and sent to you by post, this letter makes a quietly extraordinary gift for anyone born, married, or otherwise anchored to the 9th of May. A personalised piece of history, tucked into an envelope.

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08/05/2026

I dragged myself out of bed before 7am for a street dance that's been happening since before anyone can remember, in a town that once celebrated nearly being destroyed by a dragon by dancing through each other's houses. Cornwall, you never disappoint. This is the story of Flora Day, Helston, and it's the 8th of May letter in the Letters Home collection. Know someone with a May 8th birthday? Or someone who loves Flora Day and would genuinely love to receive this through the post?

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05/05/2026

Today Ella visits Billund, Denmark. Home of Lego. The toy that has brought joy to generations of children, and brought grown adults to their knees on a dark landing at 2am.
It turns out the brick that has been silently ambushing bare feet since 1955 was the result of decades of fires, financial ruin, a Great Depression, and one very stubborn Danish carpenter.
Honestly, given everything it took to create it, the least you can do is watch where you're walking.

28/04/2026

Today's letter takes Ella to Hong Kong, to the old Kai Tak waterfront in Kowloon Bay. The airport is long gone, replaced by a cruise terminal and a cycling track, but on the 28th of April it is worth stopping there. This is the anniversary of the day in 1937 when a Pan American flying boat called the Hong Kong Clipper touched down in this harbour at noon, completing the first scheduled commercial passenger flight across the Pacific. Seven passengers. Seven days. Eight thousand miles.

The story that led there is a remarkable one. Juan Trippe had started Pan American in 1927 with a 90-mile mail run between Key West and Havana. A decade later, his Clippers were island-hopping across the Pacific via Midway, Wake Island and Guam, carrying passengers in conditions closer to an ocean liner than anything resembling a modern aircraft. The Acting Governor of Hong Kong gave a speech at the hangar. A one-way ticket had cost the equivalent of $28,000 today.

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26/04/2026

On the anniversary of the night Studio 54 opened its doors, Ella arrives on West 54th Street, Manhattan, and finds a building that gives nothing away. This letter follows the story of the most famous nightclub in the world: the Gallo Opera House that became the New Yorker Theatre that became a CBS soundstage that became, for thirty-three months in the late 1970s, the room everyone wanted to get into. The door policy, the man in the moon on the ceiling, the night Chic were refused entry and wrote Le Freak instead, the raid, the closing party, and what the building is now. A printed letter from New York City, posted to your door.

Part of the Letters Home series.

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24/04/2026

Today Ella is in Lower Manhattan, at the foot of the Woolworth Building on 233 Broadway, on the anniversary of the day it opened in 1913. On the evening of its inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson pushed a button in Washington, D.C., and all of the building's lights flooded on simultaneously. The special guest that night was Thomas Edison, with the newspaper journalists struggling to put into words what they had seen.

The man who built it was F.W. Woolworth, who started his working life behind a shop counter and ended with his name on the Manhattan skyline. When he decided he wanted the tallest building in the world, Goldman Sachs turned him down. He financed the entire thirteen and a half million dollars himself. He sent architect Cass Gilbert to London to study the Houses of Parliament, and told him to bring something of that grandeur back across the Atlantic. A clergyman later called it the Cathedral of Commerce, intending it as a reproach. Woolworth ignored the slight. His own favourite name for the building was simpler: the Tower of Nickels and Dimes.

Today's letter follows Ella through Lower Manhattan and into the building's history and the man behind it.
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