Corresponding with people through letters is something of a dying a trend faced with the convenience of email and text messaging as means to stay in touch. However, there are those who lament the passing of the letter and who would strive to keep it alive if they had others to correspond with.

A great gift for lovers of the written word is a personalised stationery set. You can design a specific letterhead and select from a range of colours in order to tailor the stationery set to your friend’s liking. What would make it an even better gift is if you were to invest in your own personalised stationery set so that you could send letters between one another regularly and revive the tired trend of letter-writing.

A stationery set will generally come equipped with all you need to get started on letter correspondence, including attractive, good quality paper, matching envelopes and correspondence cards. All of these materials come with an attractive little box in which to keep them all together.

A personalised stationery set can really help to bring you closer to your friends, as letters are so much more personal than many of the modern forms of communication.