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A love letter is a popular way to express feelings of love in written form. Sometimes sent in the mail, and increasingly by electronic mail, the letter may be anything from a short and simple message of love to a lengthy explanation of feelings. Love Letters is a 1945 film which tells the story of a World War II soldier who writes his friends love letters, but begins falling in love with the friends girlfriend. ... Love Letters is a play written by A. R. Gurney. ... Love Letter is a 1995 film by Japanese film director Shunji Iwai, starring Miho Nakayama. ... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... Illustration of a scribe writing Writing, in its most common sense, is the preservation of and the preserved text on a medium, with the use of signs or symbols. ... It has been suggested that first class mail be merged into this article or section. ... Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... Vintage German letter balance for home use Look up letter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Sometimes letters are preferable to face-to-face contact because they can be written as the thoughts come to the author. This may allow feelings to be more easily expressed than if the writer were in the beloved's presence. Further, expressing strong emotional feelings to paper or some other permanent form can be an expression within itself of desire and the importance of the beloved and the lover's emotions. The expression of feelings may be made to an existing love or in the hope of establishing a new relationship. The increasing rarity and consequent emotional charm of personal mail may also serve to emphasize the emotional importance of the message. An interpersonal relationship is some relationship or connection between two people. ...

As with any letter, a love letter could be written in any structure or style. One historically popular method is as a sonnet or other form of poem. William Shakespeare's sonnets are often cited as good examples of how to write emotional themes. There have been published books collecting models and suggestions for love letters. Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, one of the best-known early Italian sonnet writers. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Title page from 1609 edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets Dedication page from The Sonnets SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. ...

After the end of a relationship, returning love letters to the sender or burning them can symbolise the hurt felt.

Some stationery companies produce paper and envelopes specifically for love letters. Some of these are scented, though some people like to use their own perfume to strengthen the impact of the letter. Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, erasers, paper clips, staples, etc. ... A blank sheet of paper Paper is a commodity of thin material produced by the amalgamation of fibers, typically vegetable fibers composed of cellulose, which are subsequently held together by hydrogen bonding. ... Front of an envelope mailed in the U.S. in 1906 contains postage stamp and address. ... Young boy smelling a flower Olfaction, which is also known as Olfactics is the sense of smell, and the detection of chemicals dissolved in air. ... Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell. ...

External links

"Romantic Love Letters" at TheRomantic.com
"Love Letters" at RomanceForEveryone.com
"Love Stories of Hawaii"
"Love Letters" at Links2Love.com
"Love Letter Template" Usable templates now available in Lovetrace.com

Categories: Letters | Love

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Civil War Love Letters (540 words)
	Some of the letters are comical, as is the letter from an unknown soldier to a woman who evidently answered his "lonely-hearts" advertisement, or from another soldier to a friend asking her to tell any local "good-looking amiable young Lady" what he wished to marry when he returns from the war.
	Letter from Daniel Blain, a Confederate soldier in the 1st Rockbridge Artillery of Virginia, to Loulie, who later became his wife.
	Letter from William Henry Ruse of the 97th Ohio Volunteer Regiment to Maggie Stewart of Adamsville, Ohio.

LOVE LETTERS (1780 words)
	These may not be the typical topics we might expect to find in love letters, but they challenge couples to think seriously about their relationship, to move beyond the moonlight and roses, to building a lively, growing, deepening relationship that can stand the trials and temptations that will come.
	In fact, the writer might have difficulty writing the love letter at all because all the stuff already on the paper would be too distracting.
	Like the letters written by the couples in the Engaged Workshop, love is expressed in doing what is good for the other person, what is good for the relationship and what gives joy to the other.

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