There are many ways to express your love but the most timeless is the love letter. It is something that has been lost over time with technology because now we would simply send a text message with our phone. But before we had phones and computers people would send long letters expressing their feelings.
A true love letter is written on beautiful paper, is dated and is very expressive. They have been around for ages but were prominent here in the US during the Civil War between soldiers and the love of their lives. Soldiers wrote many letters during the war and many people preserve and collect them today. Those letters give us an idea of what the soldiers were like and what they thought of while they were away from home. Writing letters was the main form of communication back then and the only way to let the people back home know they loved them.
The soldiers would purchase paper, envelopes, ink and pens from sutlers. Stationary makers printed many styles of patriotic stationary and envelopes with engravings of camp scenes and political humor.
The Union Army had a post office near forts and camps, and a mail service that followed the armies for the men could purchase stamps and mail their letters. In 1864, the U.S. Mail Service let the Union soldiers send their letters home for free as long as they wrote “Soldier’s Letter” on the outside of the envelope. Confederate soldiers never had such a luxury. Shortages of paper, stamps, and even writing utensils in the South became acute as the war progressed and it was often left up to the soldiers to find writing paper, including stationary taken from Union prisoners.
Thinking about writing a love letter…..here are some cute ways to do so……
~ Give a CD with special songs between you both with a letter as the cover
~ Write it in a book, either one of their favorites or a book of poems
~ Roll it up and seal it in a bottle, let it float in a bubble bath
~ Leave it in a coat or pant pocket for them to find later
“..I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and friendship as to the days of love and innocence, and, with an indescribable pleasure. I have seen near a score of years roll over our heads with an affection heightened and improved by time….” Abigail Adams
“Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my life-long keeping. You cannot see its intangible waves as they flow towards you, darling, but in these lines you will hear, as it were, the distant bearing of the surf…” Mark Twain
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