'Lots of love, darling': Hundreds of love letters dating back to 1920s up for sale
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Hundreds of love letters from decades past are up for grabs, offering a peek into days when pen and ink were conveyors of connection when miles apart.
Hundreds of love letters from decades past are up for grabs, offering a peek into days when pen and ink were conveyors of connection when miles apart.
Jay Preseau has been buying and selling antiques for the past several years.
He recently came across an interesting lot at an online auction – about 600 love letters dating back to the 1920s.
Preseau put in a bid and won, getting little information from the seller as to where the letters came from.
“It's actually a collection of two different couples’ letters, so I'm not sure if they maybe knew each other or how they wound up together. Maybe the seller just grouped them together,” he told CTV News Winnipeg from his home in Sudbury, Ont.
One couple was Harold Booth and his beloved Olivia – or maybe her name was Ellie?
“The handwriting is really, really hard to read,” Preseau said, straining to decipher the sweet nothings written decades ago in looping, intersecting cursive.
