A Woman Is Sharing 109 Love Letters From the Early 1900s

These days, when we are into someone, it takes the swipe of a finger or the seconds to send a text to tell them just that. Imagine waiting weeks or even months to find if your love interest even likes you back. It sounds like torture . . . but in the 1900s, it was the norm and actually was kind of sweet. Steph Knudson stumbled upon handfuls of letters at a vintage market in Chicago and didn't realize what kind of story she had discovered. She thought they might be fun to read on the train ride home with her best friend, who had also purchased a set, but as they read them aloud, they found a special correspondence between two people named John and Daisy.

"We both awed over the affection and love that emulated from those couple of letters and were a little sad that we only had this small piece of their story," she said on her website. "We must have been reading louder than we thought because when we stopped, the woman sitting in the opposite aisle turned to us and said 'Is that all you have?'" She went back to the vintage market and was able to round up a whopping 109 letters, and she is now sharing the beautiful story on her blog, bit by bit. Here are a few excerpts of Daisy's letters to John, and you can get updates on Steph's site as she releases them.

Nov. 4, 1905

Jan. 11, 1906

Feb. 25, 1906