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A Book of Letters — the open keepsake box, gift-wrapped cards beside the warm-dark companion booklet, gold-stamped
The closed box, tied and sealed
Hands holding the 'Before you' card
The 'Before you' card, close
Edition I · 250 numbered copies

A Book of Letters

Fourteen openings, written in your own hand.
A keepsake box of fourteen letters to write to your child by hand
$125 $95
Edition I pricing — first 250 copies

A companion booklet, fourteen painting cards, and a dedication card and a coda card — in a clay keepsake box. Each opening is a letter a mother writes, slowly, and gives when she is ready.

Thank you.

I will write to you personally when the first edition ships.

Reserve a numbered copy from the first edition of 250
Free shipping within the United States
The Object

What is kept inside

The open keepsake box — the gift-wrapped cards and companion booklet resting in tissue
The open box — cards beside the companion booklet
The open box with the 'Before you' painting card
The open box — gift-wrapped cards and booklet
Mockups · Photography arrives autumn 2026
The Openings

The fourteen openings

IBefore youWho you were to me before you arrived.
IIThe day you arrivedThe morning everything changed.
IIIYour nameHow we chose it, and what it carries.
IVWhat makes you, youThe self you came in with.
VThe way you loveHow tenderness moves through you.
VIWhat you wonder aboutThe questions you carry.
VIIWhat's hard for youThe struggles I have watched you meet.
VIIIThe day I knew you were mineWhen it became certain.
IXWhen I have been afraid for youThe fears that love brings.
XWhat you have taught meWhat I learned by raising you.
XIWhat I hope you know about loveThe little I am sure of.
XIIWhat our family believesThe values we keep.
XIIIOn the days you forget you are lovedFor when you doubt it.
XIVWhen you are grownA letter for the far side of childhood.
The Paintings

After the painters of motherhood and childhood

The illustrations throughout Yours are not reproductions. They are contemporary interpretations — drawn from the emotional language of these artists, not the surface of their work.

Mary Cassatt
What makes you, youSleepy Baby · c. 1910
The way you loveMother and Child (The Oval Mirror) · 1899
The day I knew you were mineThe Child's Bath · 1893
When I have been afraid for youBreakfast in Bed · 1897
What I hope you know about loveMaternal Caress · 1890–1891
On the days you forget you are lovedMother and Child · 1890
When you are grownYoung Mother Sewing · 1900
Berthe Morisot
The day you arrivedThe Cradle · 1872
What you wonder aboutJulie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes · 1893
What you have taught meEugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival · 1881
What our family believesThe Mother and Sister of the Artist · 1869–70
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Your nameSelf-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie · 1789
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What's hard for youA Girl with a Watering Can · 1876
Piero della Francesca
Before youMadonna del Parto · c. 1460
What's inside

Sixteen cards and a booklet

01
Keepsake box
Clay, lidded
02
Companion booklet
A6 · 32 pages
03
Fourteen letter cards
Mohawk Superfine 32pt
04
Dedication card
Gold foil · soft-touch
05
Coda card
Gold foil · soft-touch
06
Numbered certificate
One of 250
The Materials

Made to be kept

The Cards
Mohawk Superfine 32pt
Cotton-white, uncoated, with a Raven-black seam. Heavy in the hand, printed to last a lifetime.
The Finish
Gold foil & soft-touch
The dedication and coda cards carry real gold foil on a soft-touch ground — warm, matte, quiet.
The Booklet
Saddle-stitched A6
A coated satin cover in warm-dark, gold-stamped. Thirty-two pages, bound to be opened across decades.
CardsMohawk Superfine 32pt
Card seamRaven black
Foil finishGold foil · soft-touch
Booklet coverCoated satin, gold-stamped
BindingSaddle-stitched
The Edition

Edition I

250 numbered copies · MMXXVI

The first edition is limited and numbered. Each comes with a certificate of its place in the series — a small acknowledgement that some things are made to be kept.

The open keepsake box — gift-wrapped cards beside the warm-dark companion booklet, gold-stamped

Reserve your copy of Edition I

$125  $95 · first 250 copies
Reserve — ships autumn 2026
Questions

Before you begin

When does it ship?+
The first edition launches autumn 2026.
Is the price firm?+
Edition I is offered at $95 — its founding price, for the first 250 copies. Later editions return to $125.
Can I gift it?+
Yes. Each edition arrives in its clay keepsake box, ready to give. The dedication card is left blank, for your own hand.
Why limited to 250?+
Each copy is numbered and certified. The first edition is small on purpose — made to be kept, not mass-produced.
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