So beautifully packaged is this book that one hesitates to remove the shrink wrap. Once inside, the pages contain facsimiles of real letters and quotations from lovers' correspondence throughout the ages. Open to a parchment page containing the faded handwriting of Richard Steele sealed with red wax, whilst a few pages later, within a gossamer thin envelope, nestles a note from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, dated 1845. These marvelous missives will make you both laugh and cry, rejoice and regret, whilst displaying the poetry of word and emotion in the likes of such diverse Englishmen as the Earl of Chesterfield, Boswell, Congreve, Dryden, Lord Nelson and Edmund Kean. This volume is the single most romantic thing I have seen since "Gone With The Wind."

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