Valentine's Day Origins: From Cupid to Chaucer
Valentine's Day Origins: Fox News spoke to expert Nikki Lewis who deals with love year-round to learn more about the heart-filled holiday. Lewis is co-founder of the BEVY, a bespoke matchmaking service located in New York and California, and explained that while the theories surrounding Valentine’s Day are murky, the stories behind them help contribute to the February 14th holiday that we celebrate today.
People used to write much smarter Valentine’s Day cards.
One of the world’s oldest Valentine’s Day cards was recently rediscovered after sitting in an album for two decades. The letter, in which a man professes his feelings to his lover, was originally written in 1818.
The letter was purchased 20 years ago by Gavin Littaur, who spoke about it with news agency South West News Agency. (SWNS)
The letter was purchased 20 years ago by Gavin Littaur, who spoke about it with South West News Agency (SWNS).
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“I’m a bit of a romantic and just talking about this Valentine rekindles my love for it,” he said. “It’s beautiful -- exceptionally so, in fact.”
He doesn’t recall how much he paid for it, “but it was expensive at the time. George III would have been on the throne when this embossed letter was made by Dobbs of London more than 200 years ago. It’s one of the earliest postally-used Valentines in existence.”
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The old-timey card reads: “From him who upon the return of another Valentine’s Day, looks forward with pleasure to the time when his hopes may be realized; & at the altar of Hymen [Greek god of love] he shall receive the hand accompanied with the heart of her for whom he feels -- not a wild and romantic love, which abates after a short acquaintance -- but an affection which time increases rather than diminishes.”
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