![]() ![]() ![]() Oh my darling, I do so hope and pray I can make you happy. On October 7, 1880, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to his nineteen-year-old fiancée Alice Lee of his love.May God bless and keep you always my darling. My heart is full indeed for my thoughts have been of your all the day. I would that the next may find me with you, and that I may tell you all I would wish, all that my heart is now too full for me to write. I was happy and thanked God that he had so blessed me! How full of joy and happiness the world seemed to me, for I felt that you are my own Nell - that you love me! The remembrance came with my first waking in the early morning - as the thought of you always does and as I kissed your dear image, darling, my heart was full to overflowing with love and prayer for you! This is your birth-day - my own precious darling - my own Nell. Here is his birthday letter to her from August 30, 1857: Arthur appears to have been a devoted spouse to Ellen Lewis Herndon. Suffer me to assure you of my constant esteem and affection, and believe me to be Yrs. Indeed, I so esteem myself most rich in possessing you… to ensure your happiness is now my only object - and whether I float or sink in the stream of fortune, you may be assured of this, that I shall never cease to love you. John Tyler’s photographs show nothing of the passionate man revealed in this December 5, 1812, letter to his fiancée, Letitia Christian, three months before their marriage:įrom the first moment of my acquaintance with you I felt the influence of genuine affection but now, when I reflect upon the sacrifice which you make to virtue and to feeling, by conferring your hand on one who has nothing to boast of, but an honest and upright soul and a heart of purest love, I feel gratitude super-added to affection for you.Addressing one letter to “Miss Adorable” on October 4, 1762, he wrote:īy the same Token that the Bearer hereof sat up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O’Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account… I presume I have good Right to draw upon you for the Kisses as I have given two three Millions at least, when one has been received, and of Consequence, the Account between us is immensely in favor of yours. John Adams, on the other hand, freely expressed his love for his wife, Abigail, who returned his feelings in a lively correspondence.I go fully trusting in that Providence, which has been more bountiful to me than I deserve, & in full confidence of a happy meeting with you sometime in the Fall-I have not time to add more, as I am surrounded with Company to take leave of me-I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change… George Washington was known to be reserved and even austere, but one letter from June 23, 1775, hints at the warm (if not quite rising to “passionate”) feelings he directed to Martha. ![]()
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