Builders working in his basement found a 100-year-old secret hidden in floorboards. It was a 'little history lesson' for him

Renovation and construction works often bring up hidden gems from the house's history. Imagine removing your floorboards and finding a treasure hidden by someone who lived there a long time ago. Well, in this case, u/destructsean on Reddit stumbled upon a mysterious package when construction workers were working in the basement of his house. Upon looking into it, the man discovered a stash of letters that were exchanged between two people back in the 1920s.

"My wife and I are trying to read through them and piece together a timeline. It seems like some sort of affair, as the owner of the house we live in was a married man, but these are love letters. Some letters explicitly say to destroy, which he possibly disregarded. They were hidden up in the floor joist of the first floor of the house accessible only from the basement," the man elaborated about the letters in the comments. He figured out there were two authors of the letters.

Most of the letters were signed by an individual named Freddie. There were no return addresses or further identification retrieved from the stash, per his comment. The man promised fellow users that he would transcribe and post the contents of the letters in his future posts. While going through the readable contents of the letter, many people theorized that the love notes were exchanged between two men. However, some suggested that a woman was possibly having an affair and chose to write the letters using a male name to throw off any suspicion. 

u/David_Good_Enough shared, "I have friends that renovated their house and found out that at some point, the previous owners had used newspapers on the walls. They read it a little, and the guy sees a newspaper dated 90 years ago, and he finds an ad for a company named exactly after his wife's last name, a company that builds houses. Just exactly what he is doing for a living. They were half amused and half creeped out." u/participlepete wondered, "Wow, that's some find! If you're able to find or track down the person, even given the content of the letters, I bet their descendants would love to have those. It would fill out a picture of their grandfather or great-grandfather that adds to the family history." u/meinbc joked, "He must have been a player because the handwriting is different on most of the envelopes!"

u/thestereo300 pointed out, "What is the background of all the John Cheever references?" u/MG5thAve commented, "I'm excited to read these, but also find it bizarre that the recipient decided to open the envelopes from the side rather than the top! Who else does this?" u/uiomzn added, "Check those stamps and envelopes. It might be something valuable. Also, in the 80s, I was a postie in Australia. We worked in a postman hut that was maybe built in the 1900s. We had huge wooden sorting desks for our mail. When we did, a letter fluttered out. It was from some time in the 40s, during the war, in fact. We were stunned. What if this had been important?"