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fraktur love letters (pennsylvania c.1800-1850)

Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913. The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.

#if your love letters can’t be folded into a mini art gallery are you even trying bro

“I don’t know how to write love letters,” Frida Kahlo wrote in 1946. “But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.”

Valentine’s Day Love Letter (25 August 1918)

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Buzz and Tommy, c. 1949. The inscription, dated March 26, 1949, reads, “To Buzz, I’ll Always Remember The Times We Spent To-gether…All my love, Your Tommy.” #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #queerhistorymatters #haveprideinhistory #night

Letter from Frida Kahlo to Emmy Lou Packard, 24 Oct 1940.

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

i hope you’re all aware of the 300 recently discovered love letters between two gay british soldiers during ww2 that are going to be possibly adapted into a film.

they’re beautiful and poetic and tragic and heart-wrenching and brave. i highly suggest going and reading the excerpts. 

here’s the one that broke my heart:

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.“

Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Julie Guicciardi, ca. 1813.