Would you read your grandparent's love letters?

After my grandmother died we found out her wedding anniversary was 6 months later than she'd always said. My uncle would have been a quite visible bump on wedding day, which must have been quite a scandal in a small village in Northern England in 1931.

A story like that was just in *all* of the major gossip newspapers some weeks/months ago. They found their grandparents love letters and were going to read them on Twitter or something, but apparently it turned out a bad idea lol.

However, I wonder if they deleted posts or what because I couldn't really figure out what the deal was, or if the media were just snickering at "oh they can't talk about the contents after all".

And yeah, James Joyce's (Famous Irish novelist and poet) love letters are a running *ahem* gag, that leaves ANY modern day sexting to shame. o.O But yeah, maybe not everybody got into that, and there's certainly going to be a lot of more mundane keeping up to date and romancing.

Awww that's so lovely! I'd read them, of course! Out of curiosity about how they used to express their feelings and all. I wish that everyone back then would have the chance to be with the one they loved and also educated enough to write a letter. That would be pretty rare for the 30's, so that's another reason to make them more interesting and inviting to read.

That would give you a wonderful insight into your grandparents. To hear their words of love and affection echoing down from long ago, would bring a different part of them to life in your mind.

I would read and enjoy getting to know them in a very different way. If they had not wanted others to eventually read them, they would have destroyed them back in the 30's.

Oh my yes. How touching that would be!

I was away at college while my future wife was back in nj. I have a boxful. she kept every correspondence for 4 years

Oh wow, lucky you! I read my dad's to my mom while he was in the Army as a teen. They're both gone now and the letters were nowhere to be found. I hate it, I treasure those things!

Yes. 😍 I found an old letter written to my mother from my dad. I never knew much about him and it really intrigued me.

I have nothing from my grandparents. Somewhere in storage are the letters my wife and I wrote each other when I was in the Army. They would make for good soft porn reading.

I think it is hard for people to think of their grandparents as sexual beings. We like to think of ourselves as the leaders of a sexual revolution but yet everything we are doing and discovering has been done by our ancestors. We are just repeating the joy.

There's no way that I'd be able to keep myself from reading them.

I would.
I bet they would be so endearing.

Sure. That's so sweet!

Noooooo, there are dark secrets in the family and the skeletons are best left in the closet! :)

Aww

Yes, I would because then romance was the thing, and just connecting. They are part of our heritage.

No way in heaven or hell.

That's the sweetest thing ever! Yeah, I would

Yeah, I would

What a cool find!

No, I don't so. If they were alive I don't think they would let me.

So precious

Yes, my father found the letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother when they were courting, in the 1920s. They were in the idiomatic Creole that people spoke then.

Not after finding their chest of sex toys!