Love Letters
October 22nd, 2012 // 2:25 pm @ Janine and Alane
November 16, 1814 My Heart – We are thus far separated – but after all one mile is as bad as a thousand – which is a great consolation to one who must travel six hundred before he meets you again. If it will give you any satisfaction – I am as comfortless as a […]
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Love Letters
October 15th, 2012 // 2:17 pm @ Janine and Alane
To Robert Browning: And now listen to me in turn. You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me – my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything…. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
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Love Letters
October 8th, 2012 // 1:52 pm @ Janine and Alane
In addition to being a brilliant military mind and feared ruler, Napolean Bonaparte (1763 – 1821) was a prolific writer of letters. He reportedly wrote as many as 75,000 letters in his lifetime, many of them to his beautiful wife, Josephine, both before and during their marriage. This letter, written just prior to their 1796 […]
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Love Letters
October 1st, 2012 // 1:39 pm @ Janine and Alane
My Dearest Friend, …should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. I look back to the early days […]
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