Jane Austen, the 19th century English novelist was a prolific letter writer and the greater part of her correspondences was with her elder sister Cassandra.
Excerpts from a letter by William Wordsworth to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
These beautifully handwritten letters were lovingly kept aside to be read in solitude.
So every time someone picks a pen up and sits down with a sheet of paper to write a love letter, the words they transcribe
I agree with you that science and literature have sometimes done a great deal of harm. Tasso's [2] enemies made his life a long series
I wish that you were with me, for your Beethoven is very unhappy. You must know that one of my most precious faculties, that of