Love letters from the French and Indian War are opened for first time washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Confiscated love letters opened after 265 years inquirer.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from inquirer.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
250 years in the making, these love letters finally opened by a Cambridge professor, offer an extraordinary window into the lives of French Navy sailors and their loved ones.
Many of the letters contain intimate messages from the fiancées and wives of French sailors imprisoned during the Seven Years' War between 1756 and 1763.