https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:04:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-413136 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:09:48 +0000 mrsvdv 413136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So romantic and beautiful and sad.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-413123 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:19:42 +0000 loveisstrange 413123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thats so beautiful and sad. </p> <p>My grandma had TB when my Mom was a baby. She spent a year in a sanitarium in Tennessee. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-413086 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:16:53 +0000 Running Elley 413086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow that's so beautiful...... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-413082 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:05:22 +0000 Boogs 413082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! Who doesn't long for a love like that?! Such a beautiful letter! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-412969 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:03:48 +0000 mrbee 412969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rubies: She had tuberculosis (that's what killed her), so they couldn't even kiss... but they still got married! So I think she knew!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-412962 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:55:19 +0000 shopaholic 412962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What a tearjerker! Lovely and just beautiful... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-412957 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:51:09 +0000 Rubies 412957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>*tear*...That kind of love is so romantic. I wonder if his wife knew how much he loved her (when she was alive)... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-ultimate-love-letter#post-412950 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:45:10 +0000 mrbee 412950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Richard Feynman is one of my heroes... not just because he was an amazing thinker, but because of how deeply he loved his wife. She died of tuberculosis when she was 25, and he wrote a letter to her 16 months later... it was unopened until his death.</p> <p>It's such a beautiful letter that I thought I would share part of it. Here is the second half:</p> <p>&lt;&lt; When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.</p> <p>I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in my way. I'll bet you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can't help it, darling, nor can I — I don't understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don't want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.</p> <p>My darling wife, I do adore you. </p> <p>I love my wife. My wife is dead.</p> <p>Rich.</p> <p>PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don't know your new address. &gt;&gt;</p> <p>The rest of the letter is here:<br /> <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead.html</a> </p>