Vintage Beautiful Love Letter From Man to Woman on Salmagundi Club NY Stationery
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Vintage Poetic Love Letter From Man to Woman on Salmagundi Club Stationery, Circa Early to Mid 1900sThis letter is from a man (Charles), to a woman (Betty), and is well written with interesting classical art references, which is not surprising given that it is on Salmagundi Club stationery, and it is reasonable to assume that the author may have been an artist himself. I believe there may have been another page to accompany this one, as the side marked "2" begins mid sentence with the 's' in 'sufficient' being lower case. Complete transcription below....sufficient for the whole human race to be absolved for this weakness as God had created us as we are full of desire and surrounded with temptation. The story of Adam and Eve brings me back to the realms of art i.e. pictures. Pictures make me think of Titian and you recall to me Titian's Venuses. If Art has done nothing more for me it has given me the power to see life with its own eyes. When I clasp you in my arms it is as if I possessed an Italian Venus of the Renaissance so full of life and richness that it had burst from its frame and encompassed me taking on warmth and breath. These are not words but what I really feel at the time and the memory lives after. When your head with its rich dark hair is thrown back in sweet, soft abandon exposing the poetry of your neck and shoulders
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