Past event
Date:
14 February 2020
To celebrate the manifold manifestations of love in all its glorious guises, Letters Live’s debut event of 2020 was held on Valentine’s Day at Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
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To my ever-loving wife
Don to his wife
I love you Jac
Bob Monkhouse to Jackie Monkhouse
I’m amputating you
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
You will never be far away
Marina Tsvetaeva to Rainer Rilke
I weep and weep and weep
Nadezhda Mandelstam to Osip Mandelstam
She is the size of a very small budgerigar
Jennifer Saunders to Joanna Lumley
I see no beauty in lopsided true love
Elizabeth Smart to George Barker
A squeal of pain
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Yours in distress, Alan
Alan Turing to Norman Routledge
How did you get invented?
Archbishop of Canterbury to Lulu (not that Lulu)
I want to crawl up inside you
Patrick to Jessica
I’m terribly in love with you
James Schuyler to John Button
We formed only one being
Maud Gonne to Yeats
I feel happy tonight
Anne Lindbergh to Charles Lindbergh
Enough is enough
Marguerite Louise D’Orleans to Cosimo III De Medici
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to An admirer
Even my bones seem to cry for you
Georgia O’Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz
A lousy proposition
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert
I have had my eye on you
Simon Fallowfield to Mary Foster
Don’t expect me to be sane anymore
Henry Miller to Anaïs Nin
This life is mortal, but our good deeds are not
Papa Akkad to Hassan Akkad
Sex does not thrive on monotony
Anaïs Nin to The Collector
Look for me in the sunsets
Emmie to Sumner
My Dear Bessie
Chris Barker to Bessie Moore
What should I do?
Frustrated to Abby
Love Letter
Streets of Heaven
Grow Old With Me
