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Monthly
Report
Each February the Postal
Service aide the cause of
love and lovers by
delivering millions of
Valentines and love letters.
In 1973 a “LOVE” stamp
was issued And there are
many around who can still
recall the childhood joys of a
kissing game called “post
office.”
But there was a time when
some postal workers ap
parently didn’t care much
for the exchange of
Valentine greetings, ac
cording to “Notes from the
Diary of a Special Agent of
the Post Office Depart
ment,” published in
Philadelphia in 1874.
“We must utterly
protest,” wrote the Special
Agent, “against the custom
.which has obtained of late
[years, making him (St.
[Valentine) the tutelary
saint of silly lovers, mean
[mischief-makers, and
Vulgar letter-writers
generally.”
• He described Valentines
as “the offspring of weak
Sentimentalism of foolish
buffoonery; an en
cumbrance to the mails, an
annoyance to those who
receive than, a tax to all
parties and a temptation to
post office clerks...”
•: Today’s Postal Service
doesn’t share that view.
Later this month, from
February 24 through March
;i, the Postal Service, with
the cooperation of the
National Council of
[Teachers of English and
numerous other
organizations, will sponsor a
National Letter Writing
Week. It considers Valen
[tine cards and love letters a
most desirable category of
correspondence.
Men and women of letters
; have long had difficulty
[agreeing on a definition for
[love. Webster’s Seventh
[College Dictionary uses 150
[words in an effort to define
[it.
'[ And, according to Bar
tlett’s Familiar Quotations,
[love has been described as
[being “like the measles,”
.[‘like a red, red rose,” “the
:jlord and slave of all,” "a
sickness,” and “something
iso divine.”
[ A love letter is about as
personal a document as
[anyone can write or receive
and most of those recorded
for posterity tend to be
lengthy.
It was a musician,
however, who was able to
distill an ocean of motion
into a few singing lines.
Robert Schumann, the
composer, wrote to Clara
Wieck in 1838, “What a
heavenly morning! All the
bells are ringing ; the sky is
so golden and blue and
cl ear-and before me lies
your letter. I send you my
: first kiss, beloved.”
His “beloved” later
became his wife.
[j And one of the briefest and
most direct exchanges of
[love letter in history oc
curred between Prince de
: Joinville of France and the
[celebrated 19th Century
: actress, Rachel (Elisa
[Felix). Having seen her
perform, the prince wrote to
[her: “Where? When? How
much” The actress replied:
[“Your place. Tonight.
:[ Free.”
Today’s frustrated lovers
[seek advice and solace
[ through letters to “advice to
:[ the lovelorn” colums in
'.numerous newspapers.
[' Some even go farther than
[that.
:[ Shakespeare's fictional
:[ 16th Century heroine, Juliet
[Capulet, whose romance
-[with Romeo Montague
[ ended in tragedy, today
[receives 400 to 500 letters a
[[month, addressed to her in
[[Verona, Italy, the sceneof
[[the Shakespeare play.
:[ Most of die letters seek
[[her advice on matters of
[[love, and all of them, ac
[ cording to the Smithsonian
[ magazine, get replies
[from a university student
[[who has assumed the in
[ ppid, unofficial Job of
[j “secretary to Juliet.”
"Whan I ait down at my
[[desk to answer the letters, I
[ifed useful to someone,” the
[ surrogate Juliet says.
[: George Jean Nathan, the
[.late drama critic and
[ writer, also had praise for
[[leva letters.
£ ‘The public,” he wrote,
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