Love Letters 411 is a public archive of real love letters, kept in the writers' own voice. We publish reader submissions and editorial templates, organised by relationship and situation. Free to read. Free to submit.
What we do
We host love letters that real people have written. Letters to a husband or wife, to a long-distance partner, to someone they cannot tell in person, to someone they have lost. We publish them as the writer wrote them. We do not rewrite. We do not polish away the rough edges that make a letter sound like a real person sat down and wrote it.
Alongside the archive, we publish editorial guides on how to write a love letter, what to say when the words will not come, and how to deliver one without it feeling like a performance. The full set is on the guides page.
Who runs it
The site is curated by the Love Letters 411 Editorial Team, a small group of writers and editors who read every submission. The site is published by Marketing the Change, an Australia-based web and SEO agency.
Editorial standards
Our complete editorial standards page covers what we publish, how we edit, bylines, anonymity, and corrections. The short version:
- We publish letters in the writer's own voice. We fix typos. We do not rewrite, polish or restructure.
- Bylines are the first name (and optional location) the writer chose. Anonymous is honoured.
- We do not invent letters and present them as real submissions. We do not use AI to rewrite reader letters.
- Editorial pieces (hubs, guides) are written by the editorial team and clearly framed as such.
How we organise letters
Letters are sorted into nine collections by relationship and situation: to him, to her, to a husband, to a wife, long distance, secret, sad and goodbye, how to write, and occasions. You can also browse by mood (hopeful, tender, sorry, longing, gratitude, bittersweet, joyful, regretful, forbidden, new love, enduring love, goodbye).
Submit a letter
If you have a letter you would like us to publish, send it in. We read every submission. First letters are reviewed before they go live; from your third submission, they auto-publish under the byline you chose.
Read more
Read a random letter, get one letter a week via our Sunday newsletter, or read the answers to 36 common questions about love letters.