If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . .

Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible.

List of letters included:

Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved

Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas

Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin

Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf - Love Letters

Honoré de Balzac to Countess Ewelina Haska

Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais

John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli

Voltaire to Olympe Dunover

Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

Leo Tolstoy to Valeria Arsenev

Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet

Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Hawthorne

Jack London to Anna Strunsky

Johann von Goethe to Charlotte von Stein

James Joyce to Nora Barnacle

Abigail Adams to John Adams

Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou

Harriet Beecher Stowe to Her Husband, Calvin

Pietro Bembo to Lucrezie Borgia

Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger

Lewis Carroll to Gertrude Chataway

Catherine Of Aragon to Henri VIII

Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon

John Constable to Maria

Oliver Cromwell to Elizabeth Cromwell

Ninon De L'Enclos to One Of Her Lovers

Alfred de Musset to Amantine Aurore Dudevant

Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin

Heloise - Letter to Peter Abelard

Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau to Sophie

Lyman Hodge to Mary Granger, His Fiancee

King Henry IV Of France to Gabrielle d'Estrées

Franz Liszt to the Countess d'Agoult

Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife Constanze

Thomas Otway to Mrs Barry

Ovid to his wife

Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck

Vincent Van Gogh to Theo, his brother

Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia

Laura Lyttleton - Letter to Alfred, Her Husband