The 50 greatest love letters of all time

Tender Love

Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton

George A. Custer to Elizabeth Custer

John Ruskin to Euphemia Ruskin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Constanze Mozart

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to George Barrett

Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna

Harry Truman to Bess Wallace

George Bush to Barbara Pierce

Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell

Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon

Crazy for You

Jack London to Anna Strunsky

Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh

Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Marc Chagall to Bella Chagall

Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

Alfred de Musset to George Sand

Jack Kerouac to Sebastian Sampas

John Rodgers to Minerva Denison

Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus

Marjorie Fossa to Elvis Presley

Passionate Prose

Honore de Balzac to Eveline Hanska

Ludwig van Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved"

Robert Browning to George Barrett

Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry

Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd

Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera

Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman

Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

Painful Gyrations

Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Thomas

Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer

Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte

George Sand to Gustave Flaubert

Abigail Smith to John Adams

Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren

Mary Todd Lincoln to Harriet Wilson

Radclyffe Hall to Evguenia Souline

Fire and Ice

Anais Nin to Henry Miller

Voltaire to Marie Louise Denis

James Thurber to Eva Prout

George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell

Sarah Bernhardt Shaw to Stella Campbell

Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin

Marcel Proust to Daniel Halevy

Frank Lloyd Wright to Maude Miriam Noel

Anne Sexton to Philip Legler

Forbidden Love

Louise and Rachel Russell to Arthur Sullivan

Elizabeth I to Thomas Seymour

Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

Charles Parnell to Katherine O'Shea

Lewis Carroll to Clara H. Cunnynghame.