Few human emotions are as powerful as love. Love is found at the center of world most beautiful art and its most poignant literature.
Over the centuries, few things have captured that emotion like love letters. These personal notes connect lovers separated by great distances. They are, however, much more than mediocre correspondences. They are endearing and cherished mementos of passionate feelings deeply felt. They communicated the language of the heart. If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more.
Often, they captured the thrill of a new beginning. At other times, they expressed listless contentment and occasionally, they empathized the sorrow of love end. Regardless, they all demonstrated the power of love is matched only by the power of the written word.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Abigail Adams to John Adams - Dec 23, 1782
Alfred de Musset to Amantine Aurore Dudevant - 1833
Alfred de Musset to Amantine Aurore Dudevant - September 1, 1834
Beatrice Campbell to George Bernard Shaw - 18th November 1912
Catherine Of Aragon to King Henry VIII - 1535
Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger - January 8, 1845
Count Gabriel Honore de Mirabeau to Sophie - c 1780
Count Leo Tolstoy to Valeria Arsenev - November 2, 1856
Duff Cooper - June 9, 1914
Duff Cooper - August 20, 1918
Dylan Thomas to Caitlin - March 16, 1950
Edith Wharton to W Morton Fullerton - June 8, 1908
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning (1806-1861)
Fanny Kemble to Pierce Butler - 1842 or 1843
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer - 11 November, 1912
Franz Liszt to Countess D'Agoult - 1834
Franz Liszt to Countess D'Agoult - December 1834
George Bernard Shaw to Beatrice Campbell - February 27, 1913
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet - August 15, 1846
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet - August 19, 1846
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Calvin Stowe - January 1, 1847
Heinrich von Kleist to Adolfine Henriette Vogel - 1810
Heloise to Peter Abelard - ( 1098-1164)
Heloise 2nd letter to Peter Abelard
Honore de Balzac to Evelina Hanska - October 6, 1833
Honore de Balzac to Evelina Hanska - June 19, 1836
Isadora Duncan to Gordon Craig - Christmas Day 1904
Jack London to Anna Strunsky - April 3, 1901
James Joyce to Nora Barnacle - 15 August, 1904
Jane Clairmont to Lord Byron -- 1815
Jane Welsh Carlyle to Thomas Carlyle - October 3, 1826
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - June 17, 1784
John Constable to Maria Bicknell - February 27, 1816
John Keats to Fanny Brawne - March 1820
John Keats to Fanny Brawne - (1795 - 1821)
John Keats to Fanny Brawne - Kentish town, 1820
John Ruskin to Effie Gray - December 1847
Julia Lee-Booker to Pat McSwiney - July 24, 1940
Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo - 1835
Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo - 1835
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry - May 19, 1917
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry - January 27, 1918
King Henry IV of France - June 16, 1593
King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn - 1528
King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn - c.1528
Lady Shigenari to Lord Kimura Shigenari - 16th Century
Laura Lyttleton to Alfred - February 1886
Lewis Carroll to Gertrude - October 28, 1876
Lord Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb - August 1812
Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke - November 16, 1814
Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli - August 25, 1819
Lord Randolph Churchill to Jennie - August 1873
Ludwig von Beethoven - July 6, 1806
Lyman Hodge to Mary Granger - February 10, 1867
Madame DuBarry - 1761
Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon - May 12, 1869
Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin - October 4, 1796
Mary Wordsworth to poet, William Wordsworth - August 1, 1810
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine - December 1795
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine - Spring 1797
Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Hawthorne - 5 December, 1839
Ninon de l'Enclos to Marquis De Sevigne - (1620 - 1705)
Oliver Cromwell to Elizabeth Cromwell - 4 September, 1650
Pierre Currie to Marie Currie - August 10, 1894
Pietro Bembo to Lucrezie Borgia - October 18, 1503
Pliny the Younger - AD 100
Publius Ovidius Naso - A.D 8-17
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barret (1812-1889)
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barret - January 10, 1846
Robert Burdette to Clara Baker - April 25, 1898
Robert Peary to Josephine - August 17, 1908
Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck - 1838
Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan - March 4 1983
Rupert Brooke to Noel Olivier - October 2, 1911
Sir Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock - August 1707
Sullivan Ballou to Wife Sarah - July 14, 1861 (Civil War)
Sophia Amelia Peabody to Nathaniel Hawthorne - December 31, 1839
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. to Eleanor - May 20, 1943
Thomas Otway to Mrs Barry - 1678 - 1688
Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Victor Hugo to Adele Foucher - 1821
Victor Hugo to Adele Foucher - March 15, 1822
Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet - December 31st, 1851
Vincent Van Gogh - September 7, 1881
Voltaire to Olympe Dunover - The Hague 1713
Sir Walter Raleigh to Elizabeth - 1603
Winston Churchill to Clemmie - January 23, 1935
Woodrow Wilson - September 19, 1915
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Constanze - October 17, 1790
Zelda to F. Scott Fitzgerald - Spring 1919