WHATEVER Happened to old fashioned love letters?

A thirty-three yo Parisian dandy to the celebrated Author George Sand was six years his senior, marks the beginning of a brief and unusual love affair. She left behind her two children and Sandand Musset departed for Venice in 1834 soon after they were quarreling and they soon realized that their infatuation was not love, and to complicate maters Musset fell terribly ill with typhoid. Musset had returned to France and Sand found a new love Dr. Pagello the man who nursed her back to health.

Ludwig Beethoven (1770_ 1827 a student of Wolfgang Amadeus Moart and Joseph Haydn, was a Titanic figure in history of music. He never married, but that didn't stop him from having numerous affairs with married unobtainable or otherwise inappropriate women. In July, 1812 he composed on of the most remarkable love letters ever written.To a women that would never fully be his own. The letter was addressed to the unnamed "unsterbliche Geliebte" or "immortal beloved" "my heart overflows with a longing to tell you so many things-oh- there are moments when I find that speech is quite inadequate be cheerful_and be for ever my faithful my only sweetheart my all, as I am yours. The gods must send us everything else, whatever muse and shall be our fate your


loving,
Ludwig