Shaun Usher’s obsession with old-fashioned correspondence began when he fell in love with his future wife, Karina, by letter in 2002. This ultimately led to the 2009 launch of Letters of Note, an online museum of ‘correspondence deserving of a wider audience’, which to date has been visited more than 100 million times. In 2013, the first Letters of Note book was published to wide acclaim. It soon became an international bestseller and inspired Letters Live, a star-studded live show in which letters are brought to life on stage. After years of preparation, his latest project, Diaries of Note, launched online on 1 January 2023 and commenced a daily dive into the lives of others, as recorded in their private moments.