We’ve fantasized about letters before; the lovely, handwritten kind. This week, let’s revisit those missives, and this time focus on the actions surrounding them: the writing, the reading, the sending. Here are three moments to get you started:

Saul Leiter, Café des Deux Magots, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1959. Photograph. 

Claudio Bravo, Man Reading a Letter, 1975. Graphite on paper. Private collection.

Russell Lee, Postman loaded with mail waiting for streetcar. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939. Photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.