First Letterbox Accidentally Thrown Out :(

The very first letterbox I ever saw, the one that introduced me to letterboxing in the first place, was a little tupperware container hidden inside of a hollowed-out book in my local library. A friend of mine showed it to me. She had actually found it using the clues, because she and her family hunt letterboxes together, but for me, finding this little secret in the most unused section of the library (inside an outdated Atlas in the reference section) was a wake-up call to the fact that there were countless other people out there who wanted to hunt for treasure just as much as me, and that there was actually this whole "letterboxing" hobby that I could participate in. I've longed to do so ever since.

But today. Today I found out that the Atlas-hidden letterbox is gone. On the planter's website, it said it was "inactive". I emailed the planter to ask why, and they replied that a librarian accidentally threw it out.

NOOOOOOO!!!

Terrible news. It had such a neat series of clues to get to it, too!

I'm wondering if maybe I should work with this planter to replace the letterbox. That was such a great hiding spot for a letterbox, it'd be a shame to not have one there.

But this letterboxer is pretty prolific (they have planted 352 letterboxes!!) so I don't know if they would really want the help of a newbie like me.

I think I'll see what happens with my own letterboxes first. Let's do one thing at a time, here.