1Cecrow
From CBC News (Canada): https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/little-free-library-letter-9.7181871
Someone found a grandmother's letter to her grand-daughter in a book and went to some trouble reuniting the letter with its recipient. Be cautious what you leave tucked into your books! How far would you go if you found something like this?
Can't say I've encountered anything like that in the many used books I've picked up, though I've seen some loving notes on inside covers indicating the book was once given as a gift, etc.
Someone found a grandmother's letter to her grand-daughter in a book and went to some trouble reuniting the letter with its recipient. Be cautious what you leave tucked into your books! How far would you go if you found something like this?
Can't say I've encountered anything like that in the many used books I've picked up, though I've seen some loving notes on inside covers indicating the book was once given as a gift, etc.
2thorold
I once found a short handwritten note from the author tucked into a book that she’d obviously sent as a thank-you gift to people she had stayed with on a trip. There was nothing very personal, and a little googling established that everyone concerned was long dead, so it seemed reasonable to keep the letter with the book as part of its history.
More recently I bought a classical CD from a thrift store which proved to have a note in it from (probably) grandparents hoping — in effect — that it might ween the recipient off that rubbish he usually listened to. There was no evidence that he had ever cracked it open in the intervening decades and found the note, still less listened to it, and I didn’t imagine any good would come of trying to put that right…
More recently I bought a classical CD from a thrift store which proved to have a note in it from (probably) grandparents hoping — in effect — that it might ween the recipient off that rubbish he usually listened to. There was no evidence that he had ever cracked it open in the intervening decades and found the note, still less listened to it, and I didn’t imagine any good would come of trying to put that right…
4DebiCates
This isn't quite the same. I have a bookshelf strictly for my all-time favorites. In some of those books I've put a handmade bookmark with the name of one of my children or grandchildren written at the top, poking above the book so that after I'm gone, as they are having to deal with all these gooks, they will see I had intended for them to have that book, something I loved and specifically think the one named would enjoy.
i love the tidbits found in used books, though I've never found anything so intriguing as the experiences recounted here. >2 thorold: I think you made the right call on the CD.
i love the tidbits found in used books, though I've never found anything so intriguing as the experiences recounted here. >2 thorold: I think you made the right call on the CD.
5GrammyTammyM
I have found bookmarks in used books which I have reused. It is good the letter could be reunited with the owner.
6alco261
I've found all sorts of things in used books.
A beautiful hand written receipt for tuition payment for a small 19th Century college- the calligraphy is really something.
Unused theater tickets to some presentation back in the 1940's
Several pieces of foreign currency (all in separate books)
Old postcards - looks like they were used as bookmarks
A Flimsy (this is a thin sheet of paper that was used to relay/copy railroad messages)
A pair of license plate renewal stickers from the 1970's (the owner must have forgotten where they put them which means they had to go out and get another set-not happy I'm sure).
and the occasional bookmark.
As for me from time to time, after getting approval, I've sent a book to an author for an autograph (I send the book in a box, include tape and preaddressed labels and an international money order to cover postage). When the book is returned I put the correspondence in the book along with a note to the next curator providing some background on my decision to get the book autographed.
A beautiful hand written receipt for tuition payment for a small 19th Century college- the calligraphy is really something.
Unused theater tickets to some presentation back in the 1940's
Several pieces of foreign currency (all in separate books)
Old postcards - looks like they were used as bookmarks
A Flimsy (this is a thin sheet of paper that was used to relay/copy railroad messages)
A pair of license plate renewal stickers from the 1970's (the owner must have forgotten where they put them which means they had to go out and get another set-not happy I'm sure).
and the occasional bookmark.
As for me from time to time, after getting approval, I've sent a book to an author for an autograph (I send the book in a box, include tape and preaddressed labels and an international money order to cover postage). When the book is returned I put the correspondence in the book along with a note to the next curator providing some background on my decision to get the book autographed.
7Cecrow
>6 alco261: nice move with the autograph notes. And I'm sure you're correct about the license plate stickers, sounds like something I'd do.
Now that you mention it, I suppose I've found a few postcard equivalents now and then, things that were apparently used as bookmarks. I reuse them as such, and leave them in the books.
Now that you mention it, I suppose I've found a few postcard equivalents now and then, things that were apparently used as bookmarks. I reuse them as such, and leave them in the books.
