It kind of gets you right here to see the manliest men in history putting a pen to paper to express their soft side. We saw that in Teddy Roosevelt's diary entry not long ago. On a happier subject, here's a note that Samuel Clemens (also known as Mark Twain) wrote to his wife Olivia in 1888.
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Hartford, Nov. 27/88
Livy Darling, I am grateful — gratefuler than ever before — that you were born, & that your love is mine & our two lives woven & welded together!
SLC.
See the full size version at Letters of Note. Link
(Image credit: The Mark Twain House & Museum)
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Ha! Yes, we internet commenters should give America's greatest prose stylist a lesson on usage.
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Quick, someone inform good old Langhorne on the proper use of English.
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