Love Letters: An Illustrated Anthology (1976)

by Antonia Fraser (Editor)

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A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. The anthology includes both the obvious (Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise) and the anonymous (a Japanese wife whose husband is in battle, a soldier in the trenches).… (more)

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Love Letters: An Illustrated Anthology

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1976

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Introduction: As a love letter is - or should be - the most personal form of document most of us write, this is a highly personal anthology.

To my right well-beloved cousin, John Paston, Esquire, be this letter delivered, etc.

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This LT work, edited by Antonia Fraser; originally published: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ©1976; and Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, ©1977. Please distinguish between it and similar titles. Thank you.

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A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. The anthology includes both the obvious (Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise) and the anonymous (a Japanese wife whose husband is in battle, a soldier in the trenches).

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