50 Classic Love Letters You Have To Read
Ludwig van Bethoveen Oscar Wilde Emma Darwin Vita Sackville-West Virginia Woolf Honoré De Balzac Napoleon Bonaparte John Keats Lord Byron Voltaire Henri VIII Leo Tolstoy Gustave Flaubert Nathaniel Hawthorne Jack London Johann von Goethe James Joyce Abigail Adams Sullivan Ballou Harriet Beecher Stowe Pietro Bembo Charlotte Brontë Lewis Carroll Catherine Of Aragon Mark Twain John Constable Oliver Cromwell Ninon De L’Enclos Alfred De Musset Zelda Fitzgerald Mary Wollstonecraft Heloise Count Gabriel Honore De Mirbeau Lyman Hodge King Henry IV IV Franz Liszt Katherine Mansfield Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Thomas Otway Ovid Robert Schumann Vincent Van Gogh Tsarina Alexandra Laura Lyttleton
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Contents
Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved
Letter 1
Letter 2
Letter 3
Oscar Wilde - Letters to Lord Alfred Bosie
Douglas
Letter 4
Letter 5
Letter 6
Emma Darwin - Love Letter to Charles Darwin
Letter 7
Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf - Love Letters
Letter 8
Letter 9
Honoré de Balzac - Letter to Countess Ewelina Haska
Letter 10
Napoleon Bonaparte - Letters to Joséphine de Beauharnais
Letter 11
Letter 12
John Keats - Letters to Fanny Brawne
Letter 13
Letter 14
Lord Byron - Letter to Teresa Guiccioli
Letter 15
Voltaire - Letter to Olympe Dunover
Letter 16
Henry VIII - Letter to Anne Boleyn
Letter 17
Leo Tolstoy - Letter to Valeria Arsenev
Letter 18
Gustave Flaubert - Letter to Louise Colet
Letter 19
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Letter To Sophia Hawthorne
Letter 20
Jack London - Letter to Anna Strunsky
Letter 21
Johann von Goethe - Letter to Charlotte von Stein
Letter 22
James Joyce - Letter to Nora Barnacle
Letter 23
Abigail Adams - Letter To John Adams
Letter 24
Sullivan Ballou - Letter To Sarah Ballou
Letter 25
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Letter To Her Husband, Calvin
Letter 26
Pietro Bembo - Letter To Lucrezie Borgia
Letter 27
Charlotte Brontë - Letter to Constantin Heger
Letter 28
Lewis Carroll - Letter to Gertrude Chataway
Letter 29
Catherine Of Aragon - Letter to Henri VIII
Letter 30
Mark Twain - Letter to Olivia Langdon
Letter 31
John Constable - Letter to Maria Bicknell
Letter 32
Oliver Cromwell - Letter to Elizabeth Cromwell
Letter 33
Ninon De L’Enclos - Letter To One Of Her Lovers
Letter 34
Alfred de Musset - Letter to Amantine Aurore Dudevant
Letter 35
Zelda Fitzgerald - Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Letter 36
Mary Wollstonecraft - Letter to William Godwin
Letter 37
Heloise - Letter to Peter Abelard
Letter 38
Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau - Letter to Sophie
Letter 39
Lyman Hodge - Letter to Mary Granger
Letter 40
King Henry IV Of France - Letter to Gabrielle d’Estrées
Letter 41
Franz Liszt - Letter to the Countess d’Agoult
Letter 42
Katherine Mansfield - Letter to John Middleton Murry
Letter 43
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Letter to his wife Constanze
Letter 44
Thomas Otway - Letter to Mrs Barry
Letter 45
Ovid - Letter to his wife
Letter 46
Robert Schumann - Letter to Clara Wieck
Letter 47
Vincent Van Gogh - Letter to Theo, his brother
Letter 48
Tsarina Alexandra - Letter to Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia
Letter 49
Laura Lyttleton - Letter to Alfred, Her Husband
Letter 50
Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved
The Immortal Beloved (German "Unsterbliche Geliebte") is the mysterious addressee of a love letter which composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on 6–7 July 1812 in Teplitz. The entire letter is written on 10 small pages, in Beethoven's rather inconsistent handwriting. The apparently unsent letter was found in the composer's estate after his death, after which it remained in the hands of Anton Schindler until his death, was subsequently willed to his sister, and was sold by her in 1880 to the Berlin State Library, where it remains today. The letter is written in pencil and consists of three parts.
Since Beethoven did not specify a year, or a location, an exact dating of the letter and identification of the addressee was speculative until the 1950s, when an analysis of the paper's watermark yielded the year, and by extension the place. Scholars have since this time been divided on the intended recipient of the Immortal Beloved letter. The two candidates favored by most contemporary scholars are Antonie Brentano and Josephine Brunsvik. Other candidates who have been conjectured, with various degrees of mainstream scholarly support, are Julie (Giulietta
) Guicciardi, Therese Brunsvik, Amalie Sebald (de), Dorothea von Ertmann, Therese Malfatti, Marie von Erdödy (de), Bettina von Arnim, and several others.
Facsimile of the first page of the letter addressed to Immortal Beloved
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Letter 1
JULY 6,
