Letters for every occasion
Pick the moment you are writing for. Each guide covers what to say, what to skip, and gives you templates that open straight into the editor — all free, no account needed.
Anniversary Letter
An anniversary letter is the one gift that gets better with time. Flowers fade and dinners end, but a letter that names exactly what this year held — the hard month, the running joke, the ordinary Tuesday you would not trade — is something they will still have in ten years.
Read the guide →Love Letter
A love letter is not a performance. The ones that land are rarely the most poetic — they are the most observed. They prove you have been paying attention.
Read the guide →Valentine's Day Letter
The card aisle has already said everything in the most forgettable way possible. A Valentine's letter works because it does the one thing a bought card structurally cannot: it sounds like you.
Read the guide →Long Distance Relationship Letter
Distance turns small updates into a lifeline. A letter does something a video call cannot: it can be re-read at 2am when the time difference is doing its worst.
Read the guide →Proposal Letter
Most people can barely speak in the moment. A letter is the version of the proposal where you get to say everything properly, and the version they will still have long after the day blurs.
Read the guide →Wedding Day Letter
The letter read on the morning of the wedding is often the part people remember best — before the photographs, the speeches and the schedule take over.
Read the guide →Birthday Letter
Everybody gets messages on their birthday. Almost nobody gets a letter. That gap is the entire opportunity.
Read the guide →Apology Letter
A real apology has three parts and only three: name what you did, show you understand the effect it had, and say what you will do differently. Everything else weakens it.
Read the guide →Thank You Letter
Gratitude is easy to feel and strangely hard to deliver. Most of it gets compressed into "thanks so much!" and lost.
Read the guide →Mother's Day Letter
Most of what mothers do goes unremarked precisely because it is constant. A letter is a chance to remark on it — to name the specific things you only understood later.
Read the guide →Father's Day Letter
Plenty of fathers and children love each other fluently in every language except this one. A letter gets around that, because nobody has to hold eye contact.
Read the guide →Friendship Letter
We tell partners and parents how we feel. Friends mostly get jokes. That is fine, until you realise your closest friend may have no idea what they mean to you.
Read the guide →Congratulations Letter
Congratulations messages arrive in a flood and blur into one. A letter separates itself immediately by talking about the work rather than the result.
Read the guide →Get Well Soon Letter
Being unwell is boring and isolating in roughly equal measure. A letter helps with both, and unlike a visit it makes no demands on the person receiving it.
Read the guide →Sympathy & Condolence Letter
Most people say nothing after a death because they are frightened of saying the wrong thing. Saying nothing is the wrong thing. Almost anything warm and specific is better than silence.
Read the guide →Farewell Letter
Leaving is the one moment when it is completely normal to say what someone meant to you. It is a shame to waste it on "keep in touch".
Read the guide →Letter to My Future Self
A letter to your future self is a time capsule made of words. You write down who you are right now — the worries, the plans, the things you have not said out loud — and seal it until a date you choose.
Read the guide →Not sure which one?
Start from a blank page and write whatever it is. That works too.
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