I did a random survey of 100 people on my Socials about who the number 1 handwritten letter influencer in the United Kingdom was.
The results are not surprising to me.
Dinah Johnson, founder of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society in Swanage, Dorset, United Kingdom was easily #1.
You can find her here https://thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/
I was member #0005 and she now has over 1100 members.
Her manifesto is simple:
MANIFESTO:
- We believe that a handwritten letter is one of the loveliest, most personal things, anyone can receive.
- We feel people may be missing a handwritten letter or two in their lives.
- We pledge to keep handwritten letters alive by encouraging people to carry on writing them.
- We see a person’s handwriting as a thing of beauty.
- Along with handwriting we feel all stationery and the Postal Service are wondrous things and something to be used regularly.
- We want others to be the collectors of their loved-ones’, friends’, and sometimes (if they are lucky) famous people’s handwriting.
- We would say “Just go for it!” You don’t need to be Jane Austen or Thomas Hardy to write someone a letter.
- In a pledge to encourage intimacy through letter writing we would only urge caution regarding sharing whole letters on-line. Those with permission are a wonderful insight and inspiration but those without kind of puts a spanner in the works and defeats the object of writing personal letters.
- We would definitely love to see the places where people write letters, e.g. dining room table, study, library, on a bus, in the summerhouse/treehouse/shed, tearoom, train, up a mountain, on a boat, in a classroom, in fact, anywhere you like. It doesn’t always have to be the same place – just send us a photo to inspire us . (See Gallery.)
- Finally, may your love of handwritten letters be forever ignited and rekindled.
