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Just a few Love Letters & Quotes

A deep story of the power of A marriage made during America’s
love, this is the letter Johnny Cash revolution. An August 1, 1780 letter from
wrote to June Carter Cash in Alexander Hamilton to his love, Eliza,
1994, on her 65th birthday. laying out his true social status and if she is
willing to be with him.

Happy Birthday
Princess,
We get old and get use “You are certainly a little sorceress
to each other. We think and have bewitched me, for you have
alike. We read each others made me disrelish every thing that
minds. We know what used to please me, and have rendered
the other wants without me as restless and unsatisfied with all
asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. maybe about me, as if I was the inhabitant of another world, and had nothing in
sometimes take each other for granted. common with this. I must in spite of myself become an inconstant to detach
But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize myself from you, for as it now stands I love you more than I ought—more
how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever than is consistent with my peace.
met. You still fascinate and inspire me.You influence me for the
better. You're the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for
my existence. I love you very much.
Happy Birthday, Princess. John How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and
The British Bulldog in love. breadth and height
Before his greatest role as Prime My soul can reach,
Minister in England during WWII, when feeling out of sight
Winston Churchill corresponded For the ends of being and
with the love of his life, Clementine ideal grace.
Hozier, here on August 12, 1908, — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
the morning after she accepted his
proposal.
Many more Two souls with but a single thought,
letters were two hearts that beat as one.
to come — John Keats
“My dearest,
How are you? I send to you my best love to
salute you: & I am getting up at once in order I am not yours, not lost in you,
if you like to walk to the rose garden after Not lost, although I long to be
breakfast & pick a bunch before you start. You Lost as a candle lit at noon,
will have to leave here about 10:30 & I will Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
come with you to Oxford. — Sara Teasdale
Shall I not give you a letter for your mother? Where there is love, there is life.
[a letter of engagement]
Always, W. — Mahatma Gandhi

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A breakdown of value by the piece is by the number assigned.
1. $25/$40, 2. $5, 3. $20/$25, and 4. $5. David Moore is part of the school’s “Ask The Experts” appraising
These pieces are not valued at a high price, but they are history and team, and is an honors graduate and “Certified” Asheford Institute
tell a story. Display and enjoy them. of Antiques Appraiser. Mr. Moore is the owner of Waterman’s
Antiques, was President of the Indiana Archaeo logical Society, and
By the way, I thought you would like to know that this is the only is a published author, with over 50 years of experience in the
T Tuttle Turtle Token known to transverse my tabletop! Sorry, I could research and study of antiques and collectibles.
not help myself.
David L Moore Certified Professional Antiques Appraiser

To learn more about this fascinating collectible, see “Love Tokens” on page 18

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