letters home
Mail from abroad
Letters home are correspondence sent back to one's family or hometown while away—typically by soldiers, travelers, students, or immigrants.
The phrase evokes distance and longing, the writer separated from familiar life: His letters home described the trenches in surprising detail.
Collections of such correspondence often become historical or literary documents, offering intimate glimpses of distant experiences.
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
- soldierArmed forces member
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- mailPostal system items
postal service · postmark · envelope · longing · family · dear · missing · stamps · writing · news · front · distant · mother · father · pen pal · care package · war bride · waiting
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- homesicknesshomesick, homesickness, longing, yearning, pining
- Military MailAPO, overseas mail, care package, mail call
- Prison Memoirsprison memoirs, doing time, behind bars, hard time, prison life
- wartime moralemorale, patriotism, war effort, fighting spirit, national unity
- WWII artifactsdog tags, helmets, service medals, war bonds, ration books
letters homepostcards
Mailable souvenir notes
telegrams · text messages · emails · voice messages · phone calls home
letters homeradio silence
Absence of broadcast communication
going dark · disappearing · estrangement · incommunicado · silence
letter, letters, home, homes, lettered, lettering, letterer, homed, homing