- Letter from Isaias to her husband, Hephaestion, 29 August 168 BC
- Margery Brews to John Paston III, February 1477
- Prince Arthur to Katherine of Aragon, 5 October 1499
- Pierre Sala, Petit livre d'amour (letter to Marguerite Bullioud), c. 1500
- Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, love notes in a Book of Hours, c. 1528
- Katherine Parr to Henry VIII, July 1544
- Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I, 18 October 1591
- Sir Thomas Baskerville to his wife, Mary, 21 August 1595
- Thomas Knyvett to his wife, Katherine, 26 November 1621
- George Villiers to James I, 29 August 1623
- Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 15/16 October 1653
- Sir John Fenwick to his wife, Mary, January 1697
- Vanessa [Esther van Homrigh] to Jonathan Swift, 1714
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- Horatio Nelson's last letter to Lady Emma Hamilton, 19 October 1805
- Charles Dickens to his future wife, Catherine Hogarth, May 1835
- Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Héger, 18 November 1844
- Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, De profundis, January 1897
- Gordon Bottomley to Emily Burton, 17 October 1899
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese, c. 1846
- Christina Rossetti, Valentine poem to her mother, 1884
- Rupert Brooke to Cathleen Nesbitt, 1913
- Roger Keyes to his wife, Eva, 10 December 1914
- Mervyn Peake to his wife, Maeve Gilmore, early 1940s
- Ted Hughes, c. 1980
- Ralph Richardson to his wife, Meriel Forbes, 1964-70.
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