Letter to Earl Peron from Unknown
Item
- Title
- Letter to Earl Peron from Unknown
- Alternative Title
- Gay love letter, 1923
- Type
- Letter
- Abstract
- This is a very romantic letter from an unknown man to his male lover, Earl Peron. In it, the anonymous man professes his deep love and trust in his partner, and expresses the wish that they would have a lasting relationship.
- Who wrote the letter
- Unknown
- Receiver of letter
- Earl Peron
- Date Written
- 1923
- Transcription
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Page 1
Earl, my precious Sweetheart:-
I could not write to any
One other than my own true Love
This lonely afternoon, darling Earl. And what I pay will be feeble in its attempts to carry to you some idea of the tremendous love and devotion that are in my heart, my dearly beloved. Earl, dear, no one could ever have loved you before it seems, with that whole hearted boundless love for you that has taken possession of me; and when I feel that it is returned in equal or even may be greater measure (if that is possible) then I am so happy that I just accept it all without even stopping to consider any more how un-worthy I am of such a wonderful man’s love. One thing I can do better than most others, Earl my dear, is to appreciate. Every sacrifice you make, every effort you put forth is understood and appreciated to the limit, darling, for most
Page 2
Of my life has been spent in service for others, and in assuming their responsibilities and now when the man I love, the only man I ever did love or even care for, and the only man I ever shall love, when that man stands beside me and helps me along - I just feel that all things are possible - and not only possible, Earl darling, but so worth while. When I am absent from you, my love, I realize so keenly what it is that makes life itself worth while for me. And if in any way I can be an inspiration along your pathway our love will have borne its fruit. I never intended, dear, to be a mere friend. For my life, dearest, you are the one, than whom there cannot under any conceivable circumstance be any other. That is what I would be to you, too. With me, if there is any thing that makes me happy, my first thot is
Page 3
This - “Will that please, Earl” and if there is any thing that makes me unhappy, at once there flashes into my mind the thot - “Will that make Earl feel bad.” You have been so close to me this [week], dear, you will never know and I can never find words to tell you what it has all meant to me, and how it has brot us to a better understanding of our need for each other, and how little material things count, and how the greatest thing there is - the love of two men for each other, based upon a mutual understanding and tender appreciation of each for the other, and resting in absolute trust and confidence. Earl, my own dear Earl, for you have given your self to me in so many different ways, and are mine -- you cannot know the extent of my confidence in you, and really dear if you believe in me, and if my confidence is well placed in you (and no one in the world could convince me that it was not) then sweetheart
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I know your sense of justice will be sufficient to make you cast out every last lingering doubt concerning me. For of your deep and abiding love for me you have proven that nothing I have ever known has been so genuine. Nothing else so real. And never anything else so cherished by the object of your affection. And Earl dear my wish is that this love may yield you 1000% in happiness. The future holds so much for both of us - if we are united, so very little - if we are apart. In the very near future we are going to be together so much - there is going to be such an opportunity for our love to find its fullest expression - and we are going to find that peace and satisfaction which will come of a perfect understanding of each other. I pray often that all of those things which you so richly desire may come to you, my love, and that I may have some part in bringing them to pass. Never for our moment are you out of my thots dear heart. And ever in real trouble I can be strong. To the truest lover who ever lived. Love,
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- Item sets
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