"Bring it, Ludwig" said John James Preston.

The Scene from SATC that made me (and a million other women) fall in love with love letters again

So, it may be so last year (or 3 centuries ago) but I don't care. The words of Beethoven always resound in my mind when I watch the SATC movie or read his (now) infamous letter/s:

..You - my life - my All - farewell.

Oh, go on loving me - never doubt 

the faithfullest heart 

Of your beloved

L

Ever thine

Ever mine

Ever ours.

This letter is actually the last of a series of three, which were found among a pile of papers after his death and addressed to his "Immortal Beloved" (Love Letters of Great Men, Ursula Doyle).

Extracts from some other hot letters:

Henry VIII to Anne of Boleyn:

My heart and I surrender themsevles

into your hands,

and we supplicate to be commended

to your good graces, 

and that by absence your affections

may not be diminished to us,

For that would be to augment our pain, 

which would be a great pity,

since absence gives enough,

and more than I ever thought could be felt. 

Well, sadly he did eventually think more could be felt as he beheaded her...

Napolean Bonaparte to Josephine de Beauharnais (1796):

13 November

I do not love thee any more;

On the contrary, I detest thee.

Thou art horrid, very awkward,

Very stupid, a very

Cinderella.

circa, early December

I have not spent a day without 

Loving you;

I have not spent a night without embracing you;

I have not so much

as drunk one cup of tea without cursing

the pride and ambition which force me to remain 

apart from he moving spirit

Of my life.

In the midst of my duties,

whether I am at the head of the 

army or inspecting the camps,

My beloved Josephine stand alone in my heart,

occupies my mind, 

fills my thoughts.

Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood (1839)

Excuse this much egotism,

- I give it to you because I think you

will humanise me,

And soon teach me there is

greater happiness than buidling

theories and accumulating facts

in silence and Solitude.

My dearest Emma, 

I earnestly pray, you may

never regreat the great, 

and I will add very good,

deed, you are to perform

on the Tuesday: my own dear

future wife, 

God bless you...