Over the weekend, my newspaper reported that Joan Bakewell had donated a collection of love letters to an archive where they will be in the public domain, for anyone to read. The letters were written to her by Harold Pinter, with whom she conducted an affair in the 1960's. Extracts from some of the letters were printed in the newspaper, and they were very, very touching, but intensely personal. After reading them I felt as if I had read things that were so personal that they should have been kept private.

What do you folks think? Should love letters be kept private, or is it ok to allow anyone to read them? Maybe as the sender is now no longer around it might seem appropriate, but his wife, Lady Antonia Frazier is very much alive. I am wondering how she feels about her husbands love letters to another lady being made public?

Do people write love letters these days? Have any of you lovely people kept love letters from long ago, maybe in a little parcel tied with red ribbon?🙂 Would you like all and sundry to read your most intimate missives? 

I have just realised, after typing this, that Valentines Day is approaching, so maybe this is an appropriate post at the moment!