Choose Your City and Your Neighborhood
Choose a city and neighborhood that mean something to you, or to someone you're giving it to.
A story from your old neighborhood, delivered by mail
Go back to the neighborhood you grew up in, one letter at a time.
A nostalgic gift for parents, grandparents, and anyone who misses the neighborhood they grew up in. Each story unfolds through 12 letters, mailed twice a month over six months.
Imagine opening your mailbox and finding a letter from the neighborhood you grew up in, written decades ago, from a street you used to walk. Then another arrives. And another. Over twelve letters, a story unfolds in the place that raised you: the porches, the corner store, the people you thought you'd forgotten. This isn't a book. It's a story that finds you, and takes you back.
Before you scroll, do you remember?
The screen door slamming on a summer night.
Walking to the corner store with a quarter in your pocket.
The bobs at Riverview. The organ at Wrigley. Friday nights on Western Avenue.
The Wentworth Letter takes you back there.
How it works
A story that arrives slowly,
the way secrets do.
The Letters Begin Arriving
A series of physical letters arrives through the mail, each revealing another piece of the story.
The Mystery Unfolds
Photographs, maps, notes and other artifacts pull the reader deeper into the story.
Monthly · $12.99 every calendar month
Each story unfolds through 12 physical letters over six months. Your subscription continues unless cancelled. Cancel anytime, with no six-month payment commitment.
Annual · $118.92 upfront
Two six-month stories, with 24 physical letters delivered over 12 months. Renews every 12 calendar months. Cancel renewal anytime; your remaining prepaid letters will continue to arrive.
Both plans include two physical letters, mailed separately each month. Domestic USPS postage is free for your first and all recurring shipments.
The mailbox becomes part of the story.
The collections
Pick the neighborhood that raised you.
Five cities. Twenty-five stories. Start with the streets you know.
Chicago
Available Now
Edison Park, Chicago · 1980s
The Girl From Edison Park
Friendship, romance, missed opportunities, and events that only make sense years later.
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Riverview Park, Chicago · 1960s
One Night at Riverview
The midway lights, a summer crowd, and one night that someone never stopped thinking about.
Coming Soon
Wrigley Field, Chicago · 1969
The Photograph at Wrigley Field
An old family snapshot from a summer afternoon at the ballpark, and a face no one can quite explain.
Coming Soon
Montrose Beach, Chicago · 1976
Summer on Montrose Beach
Sand, sunlight and the lake. A group of friends, one unforgettable summer, and what came after.
Coming Soon
Western Avenue, Chicago · 1964
The Western Avenue Promise
A neighborhood wedding, a promise made on the sidewalk, and the years that tested it.
Philadelphia
Available Now
30th Street Station, Philadelphia
The Suitcase at 30th Street
A suitcase left behind at the station, and the journey it was supposed to take.
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East Passyunk, Philadelphia
The Wedding on Passyunk
A wedding day on East Passyunk Avenue: family, food, and a secret at the reception.
Coming Soon
Manayunk, Philadelphia
The Manayunk Address
An address in Manayunk that somebody never stopped writing home about.
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South Street, Philadelphia
Down on South Street
South Street after dark: the shops, the crowds, and one summer that changed everything.
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Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
Meet Me at Rittenhouse Square
A note with four words: meet me at Rittenhouse Square. Thirty years of wondering.
Detroit
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The Grande Ballroom, Detroit
After Midnight at the Grande
The Grande Ballroom after midnight: the music, the crowd, and a night Detroit never forgot.
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Downtown Detroit
Christmas at Hudson's
Christmas at Hudson's: the windows, the crowds, and a gift that was never opened.
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Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Cruising Woodward
A summer night cruising Woodward, windows down, radio up, nowhere else to be.
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Detroit
The Last Picture on the Roll
One frame left on the roll, and the picture somebody waited years to see.
Coming Soon
Tiger Stadium, Detroit · 1984
Tiger Stadium, 1984
The summer of '84 at Tiger Stadium, a season nobody in Detroit has ever gotten over.
Boston
Coming Soon
South Boston · 1968
Southie, 1968
A summer in the old neighborhood, a girl everyone knew, and one secret she kept for years.
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North End, Boston · 1962
Afternoons in the North End
A delivery boy's route through narrow streets, and a message he was never supposed to carry.
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Fenway Park, Boston · 1978
Two Seats at Fenway
A sunny afternoon, two strangers in the bleachers, and a story that started with a single inning.
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Dorchester, Boston · 1964
One Last Summer in Dorchester
Four friends. One street. A summer that bound them together in ways they didn't understand yet.
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Charlestown, Boston · 1971
The Charlestown Postmark
A lamp-lit street, an unanswered letter, and a question that lingered for decades.
Cleveland
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Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland · 1969
Last Dance at Euclid Beach
The park's final summer. A warm evening by the lake, and a goodbye no one saw coming.
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West Side Market, Cleveland · 1958
Saturday at the West Side Market
A busy Saturday morning among the stalls, and a chance meeting that changed a family's course.
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Detroit Avenue, Cleveland · 1982
Summer on Detroit Avenue
Three friends, their bikes, and a long summer that each remembers a little differently.
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Little Italy, Cleveland · 1971
A Name from Little Italy
A letter that was never meant to be found, waiting quietly above a neighborhood storefront.
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Cleveland · 1962
The House on Franklin Boulevard
Clearing out his grandparents' old house, a young man finds a box of photographs of a family no one recognizes, and one picture that hits much closer to home.
The artifact experience
Some letters bring something with them.
The details matter. Throughout the story, letters may arrive with photographs, maps, tickets, notes and other pieces of the past. Each artifact reveals another clue, or raises another question.
I thought the photograph had been lost. Then I saw what someone had written on the back...
October, 1984
Admit One
A gift with
another chapter coming.
Give an experience
Give them back their old neighborhood.
Created for parents, grandparents, spouses, siblings and friends, for anyone who ever says, 'You should have seen our street back then.' Instead of giving someone another object, give them the block they grew up on, arriving one letter at a time: a new envelope, a new clue, a new piece of the neighborhood they once knew.
Give The Wentworth LetterEvery story starts with a letter.
Not sure if The Wentworth Letter is for you? Read the first letter and step inside the story before deciding.
Read the First LetterWhat arrives
Twelve letters. One unforgettable story.
12 Story Letters
Period-inspired correspondence revealing the story one piece at a time.
Authentic-Looking Envelopes
Designed to feel connected to the era and the world of the story.
Story Artifacts
Photographs, maps, tickets, notes and physical clues where appropriate.
A Story Over Time
Instead of consuming it at once, anticipation becomes part of the experience.
P.S.
There are more letters coming.
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