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`MY RIGHT WELL-BELOVED VALENTINE' Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote them. So did Rupert Brooke. But some of the best love letters in history, discovers Suzi Feay, have been sent by people just like us
From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030209
Author:Suzi Feay
Some things never change. The husband's away, the wife's stuck at home with the baby (and the mother-in-law). There must be some reason why he hasn't come home. Meanwhile, the cost of living is astronomical and it's getting harder to cope. Where the hell is he? It's time to deliver a scolding - with a softening clause at the end: "Please look after yourself". She could be a contemporary, any anxious wife whose husband is away on business. But Isias's letter to Hephaestion, a soldier in the Egyptian army, was written in 168BC.
A small exhibition entitled "How Much Do I Love Thee?" at the ...
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