1945 Love Letters

As the month of love is on the horizon, I wanted to share a story of some very special love letters that I found in an antique shop on Edgewater Drive in College Park, FL several years ago. They are some of the most beautiful love letters I’ve ever read, and they are postmarked from 1945!

At first, I bought one package containing five letters but after getting home, I knew they had to “stay together.” I went back to purchase the others. Why would someone get rid of these beautiful old letters dated from 1945, that are now 80 years old? 

I can only guess that the man and woman never married. They are still beautifully written, and I thought someone should “save them!!” 

That someone was me. It’s a look back in time, for sure. 

I wonder if anyone will save the letters Scott and I have written to each other? Or, maybe we will keep them “for our eyes only?” 

Initially, I could not read them. I felt they were too private. 

But, then curiosity got the best of me. There were 24 letters. 

I learned he was a captain in the army stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia. He had beautiful handwriting. There were sayings from times past, such as being “tickled to pieces” and “listening to the hit parade.” He used phrases like, “wouldn’t that be swell?” 

Her name was Frances Robinson, and she was a school teacher in New York . He asked her the question, “how do they feel about married teachers?” 

He told her how he wished he could keep all of her letters, but he moved so often, while in the service, he didn’t have room for them. He did keep the special ones, although they were all special to him. 

He would use the phrase, “golly gee!” He finished one of the letters by wishing the weeks would hurry by, so that he could be with her, his Darling. What a sweet term of endearment. 

He ended the letter by signing it, 

“I love you with all my heart, 
Your Charles.” 

I never read all of them, just a few to learn of a very special love separated by many miles. 

Somehow I wish I could find the person these beautiful letters belong to. For now, I’ve loved sharing them with YOU! ❤️