Large Background Love Letter
unmounted stamp. Stamp reads:
“I have
something stupid and ridiculous to tell you. I am foolishly
writing to you instead of having told you this, I do not know
why, when returning from that walk. Tonight I shall be annoyed
at having done so. You will laugh in my face, will take me for
a maker of phrases in all my relations hitherto. You will show
me the door and you will think I am lying. I am in love with
you. I have been since the first day I called on you.”
From Alfred to
his beloved Amantine, 1833
