1.0World Letter Writing Dayhttps://worldletterwritingday.comrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="KOoxM1rnZt"><a href="https://worldletterwritingday.com/how-to-write-a-love-letter-the-valentines-day-masterclass/">How to write a love letter – the Valentine’s Day Masterclass</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://worldletterwritingday.com/how-to-write-a-love-letter-the-valentines-day-masterclass/embed/#?secret=KOoxM1rnZt" width="600" height="338" title="“How to write a love letter – the Valentine’s Day Masterclass” — World Letter Writing Day" data-secret="KOoxM1rnZt" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://worldletterwritingday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1.jpg1200675It’s Valentine’s Day on Friday. In anticipation of the day, and in the hope of rekindling a fondness for the handwritten love letter, Royal Mail is dedicating a number of its letter boxes to some of Britain’s greatest romantics. Quotations from John Keats, Robert Burns, and Thomas Hardy, among others, will adorn postboxes around the land.I can’t pretend to be a dab hand at love-letter writing myself, and if you aren’t either but would like to be, read on.Help is not just at hand – it’s here, now, in this very blog you’re reading.Hand-written love letters are a thing of the past - and that’s sad, isn’t it?I met a group of young people the other day, not one of whom had ever sent or received a love letter. One of them claimed not even to know what a love letter is. Seriously, he’d heard about ‘French letters’ and said he’d always assumed ‘love letters’ were some form of old-fashioned contraceptive. I put him right.I asked a girl in the group how she would indicate to a young man that he had taken her fancy, if not with a love letter. She said she text him an emoji of a smiley face. And if you fancied him a lot? I asked. ‘A smiley face with a tongue hanging out,’ she replied. And how would he respond if he fancied you? I enquired. ‘He’d send me an emoji of an aubergine,’ she said with satisfaction.She can do better than that, surely? We can all do better than that – and we have 72 hours left before Valentine’s Day 2019 in which to try.Yes, this is the week in which to send the love of your life the letter of your life! Welcome to the Brandreth master-class on the art of love-letter writing.Don’t worry, the rules I am about to share have been compiled by me, but they are not my rules: these are the lessons of history.In preparing this crash course in love-letter writing, I have taken soundings from a number of authorities (all female), ranging from women of experience (the great historian, Lady Antonia Fraser, has compiled the definitive anthology of love letters) to the three young, unattached journalists, aged 26, 27, and 30. As part of my researches, I even made a pilgrimage to Ladbroke Grove and took a masterclass of my own from the award-winning novelist and literary historian, Dame Margaret Drabble, who in one of her novels evoked the love affair and marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Browning - ‘their story is the paradigm of perfect love’, she says - and has read more widely, more wisely, than anyone I know.So, if you want to woo and win - or simply wow - the one you love, here are the rules, drawn from the experience of the great love-letter writers of yesteryear: