Shortly after I submitted the project proposal for Let There Be Letters to Kickstarter, I sent -- for the first time in over a year -- a letter to someone with whom I wasn't already corresponding. The recipient wasn't a stranger, but it was someone I hadn't seen in over a month -- my eleven year old nephew, Bryce.
I used handmade Nepalese paper created from the Daphne bush (Daphne papyracea, or the Lokta plant) -- which is nice and thick, textured, and with visible filaments throughout -- and a simple #2 pencil. This letter doesn't quite contain the neatness or density I'll be shooting for in my LTBL letters, but for an eleven year old boy who rarely gets any mail at all it did the job.
- Joe
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