There is nothing like crafting characters and capturing the voice of a story, bringing it to life on the pages. As we immerse ourselves in the digital world, the allure of handwritten love letters remains strong.

Though I expected the letters in this collection to be love letters, I must admit that I was overwhelmed with how gag-worthy many of them were. Remember the wonderfully romantic book of love letters that Carrie reads aloud to Big in the recent blockbuster film, Sex and the City ? Rather than tell you all of the letters, I’ve picked my favourite three all for very different reasons.

However—wanting her to understand him completely before marriage—he gave her his diaries; the shock ended their relationship. While some men are unabashedly poetic and romantic, others skew to the extremely opposite spectrum, to say the least.

Summary: Collects together some of history's most romantic letters from the private papers of Beethoven, Mark Twain, Mozart, and Lord Byron. Charles always saw Ray as an equal in all of their endeavors, even when the world they lived in at the time was not lithe to do so “Anything I can do, Ray can do better,” he said. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more. They added a nice touch by giving some background info on the relationship or which stadium of life the different letters were written in.According to the book “The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War” by Ohio attorney and author James David Robenalt, Harding’s affair with Phillips began in 1905. In 1819, he founded the journal Conservateur Litteraire as an outlet for his dream and soon produced volumes of poetry, plays, and novels. He regrets that the means of replying has been withheld, and though his wishes are not of a nature that permits them to be published here, he hopes that at least his silence will be understood. These letters and the short biographical notes reveal some interesting, sometimes amusing details about famous people's private lives, such as the fact that Mozart and his wife both loved scatological jokes; Robert Burns was a dog (he got two women pregnant while carrying on with his "main", I guess you'd say, mistress; one of the pregnant women was the mistress's maid); Napoleon Bonaparte seems to have been very insecure about his wife's love for him and tortured over it; Charles Darwin made a pro-/con list when he considered marriage, "better than a dog anyhow" was on the pro- side and "not forced to visit relatives" in the con side (he subsequently sounded very happy with his choice though, even though he married his first cousin); Robert Browning's love for Elizabeth Barrett started as a fan's admiration; Mark Twain's in-laws had been conductors on the Underground Railroad; Alfred Douglas did not abandon Oscar Wilde after his process, on the contrary, he campaigned in the press against the sentence and petitioned the Queen for clemency.