Letters between the artists Beatrice Fenton (1887-1983, top right) and Marjorie Martinet (1886-1981,
Letters between the artists Beatrice Fenton (1887-1983, top right) and Marjorie Martinet (1886-1981, bottom left), lovers of fifty years. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian.“… I would pour out to you the tenderest and the most fervent love I know if you were here to-night, Beloved. I wish I could do more than write it, or that I could write poetry …” (undated)“My love is like the sea; returning – as the tide … Lovingly with embraces pleading, gently then with kisses speaking, unto the lovely shore, your love.” (1915) -- source link
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