"The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are. In a letter to his wife, Nancy, in 1972, prior to their 20th anniversary, Reagan (who, at the time and prior to his presidency, was serving as the Governor of California) penned a romantic note to his wife expressing his undying love for her, and explaining that he never wants to leave her side. Ronald Reagan to Nancy ReaganĪnother former President whose romantic writings are worth mentioning: Ronald Reagan. How lucky our children will be to have a mother like you." 7. How often I have thought about the immeasurable joy that will be ours some day. I love you, precious, with all my heart and to know that you love me means my life. "This should be a very easy letter to write-words should come easily and in short it should be simple for me to tell you how desperately happy I was to open the paper and see the announcement of our engagement, but somehow I can't possibly say all in a letter I should like to. In the surviving letter, Bush joyfully explained how he envisioned the couple's future. To this day, only one love letter to Barbara remains from the former president's time overseas, as Barbara reportedly lost the majority of her letters in a move after the pair were married. In 1942, on the heels of World War II, Bush enlisted in the Navy, and while stationed overseas, wrote letters to both his parents and to his then-girlfriend, Barbara Pierce. Bush was surprisingly romantic in his letters to his wife, Barbara. Oh continue to love me-never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, Be calm-love me-today-yesterday-what tearful longings for you-you-you-my life-my all-farewell. In one particular letter, penned while Napoleon was commanding the French army near Italy a few months after their marriage, he expressed how much he missed his wife. But Napoleon still continued to write to Joséphine for years after their separation. Before you swoon: he divorced her when she could not have children. In letters to his wife, Joséphine, the military leader reveals a vulnerability not found in his autocratic approach to expanding the French empire. While known for his ruthlessness as a ruler, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte also possessed a softer side. (Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, maintained in a New York Times article that the two were merely close friends.) 2. "I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home," he wrote in one. Hemingway wrote Dietrich, his best friend, approximately 30 letters between 1949 to 1959. But in his letters to actress Marlene Dietrich, he shows a more vulnerable side. Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway was a prolific, confident writer, famed for his stoic masculinity. Here: A master class in affectionate prose. Bush's sweet notes to his wife Barbara, to the steamy letters between Virginia Woolf and her female lover. History is filled with achingly romantic love letters between two women and between two men, from former kings, presidents, and war generals, and to between two best friends.įor a little inspiration to warm your cold Tinder-hardened heart, we've rounded up the 10 most romantic love letters of all time, from George H.W. And not just the stuff of sensitive, heterosexual artist types either. “you up?” text as “romance.” But there was once a time in our not so distance past where eloquent prose professing a burning affection (and written by hand!) was the norm. Writing romantic love letters can feel like a prehistoric practice in an age where we classify a 2 a.m.
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