Excerpt from Old Love-Letters, or Letters of Sentiment: Written by Persons Eminent in English Literature and History

It is a subtle fact which we discover in studying these Old letters, that they reveal. Not only the writer, whose soul, as Johnson says, lies naked in his letter, but that, by a sort of refracted light, they show us the soul of the person written to.

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