A Gift Like No Other: Letters, Love, Valentines, and Culture

Handwritten love letters can bring back meaningful Valentine messages in the digital age.
A Gift Like No Other: Letters, Love, Valentines, and Culture
A Valentine's Day postcard from The Household Journal's set in 1911. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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On my desk at the moment are two collections of love letters.

The first is an illustrated anthology, “Love Letters,” selected by British writer and historian Antonia Fraser. The second is “The Book of Love,” edited by Diane Ackerman and Jeanne Mackin, an 800-page tome of fiction, poetry, essays, excerpts from memoirs, and about 50 letters.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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