Marta R.
b. 1948
A bread recipe
My grandmother kept her bread recipe on a piece of paper folded inside a book. We argued about small things and loved with our whole hearts…
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My grandmother kept her bread recipe on a piece of paper folded inside a book. We argued about small things and loved with our whole hearts…
Read the full letterI am writing this from a balcony above a port. The men still mend the same nets. The boats still go out before the sun. I want you to know it was beautiful…
Read the full letterIf you find this and there are still birds outside, please listen to them for a moment. I am asking you on behalf of the rest of us. We loved them very much…
Read the full letterWritten by us so you can see what’s possible. Yours will be entirely different. Write your own →
Not a celebrity archive. Not a government archive. Not a museum project. For the first time in history, ordinary people do not need to be famous to be remembered. Write your letter, and on a winter morning a hundred years from now, a stranger will sit down with it, learn your name, and quietly understand that you were here — and you will not have vanished after all.
Until now, history has been written almost entirely by the few who happened to be remembered: kings, generals, the famous, the documented. The inner lives of everyone else — what they believed, what they feared, what they thought their world really was — almost entirely vanish within two or three generations.
LetterForFuture is the first attempt to change that. Leave a record of who you were and what you stood for. Your beliefs. Your truths. Your hopes for the world. Sealed in the capsule, opened a hundred years from now, and made public for whoever wants to read it — a legacy that doesn’t depend on fame to survive.
Up to four pages. About yourself, your family, your city. About what you fear and what you love. Write as you would write to your great-grandchild.
Your home. Your family. A street you walk every day. An object that matters to you. Future eyes will study these images more closely than you can imagine.
Your letter is printed onto archival paper and sealed into the capsule alongside every other voice. You may include your name, your birth year, your city — or stay completely anonymous.
A professional, long-life time capsule, buried in Gauja National Park, Latvia — on bedrock more than a billion years old. Each letter is printed onto archival paper and sealed inside, built to outlast far more than a hundred years if needed. A tree is planted above it, and the site is open to anyone who wants to visit.
The capsule is registered with the International Time Capsule Society at Oglethorpe University — the global registry of recorded time capsules.
Scarcity is part of the meaning. There is only one capsule. Every letter is part of the same voice.
Three books, three albums, three recipes, three objects, three symbols. Sealed beside your letters — the three most-mentioned suggestions in each category travel.
One suggestion per visitor in each category. Letter-writers may add another at the end of their letter.
It is not owned by any country, organisation, or family. The opening will be public — shared with whatever world is alive on that day — and every letter, every photograph, every recipe will be made freely available to whoever wishes to read them.
This is the only rule we have written for the people who come after us:
“What was given by everyone shall be returned to everyone.”
Sealed by a world that came together
to write a shared history.
If you find this place before that day,
pass it gently and leave it as it is.
If you find it on or after,
open the capsule publicly.
Share its letters freely.
Help every voice find the people
they were written for.
This was given by everyone.
It belongs to everyone.
Donations go directly to archival paper and printing, the construction of the time capsule, the burial site at Gauja National Park, the legal protections that keep it undisturbed for a century, and the day-to-day work of running the project.
A small gift that places you in the founding circle of the project. Covers the archival printing of one letter.
Helps us make sure this project happens in the quality it deserves. Funds the sealing materials and protection for a small bundle of contributions.
A meaningful gift toward the capsule itself, the burial site at Gauja, and the long-term protection of every voice inside.
If you want to help build this in full — the capsule itself, the burial site at Gauja, the long-term work of running the project — add a contribution on top of the $50 Devotion gift. Founding supporters are listed, with permission, in the public ledger sealed alongside the letters.
All contributions itemised in the public ledger.