A Romantic Love Letter written by Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) to Gordon Craig.
It is believed that this romantic love letter was written on Christmas Day 1904
Grand Hotel D’Europe
St. Petersbourg
Rue MichelJust arrived this morning — Christmas morning
Here it’s the 12 of December (remember the 12 days of Christmas)My Darling —
I don’t like it at all. All the Chairs are staring at me in the most frightful way — And there is a Lady on the Mantel piece who has taken a Great objection to me — and I’m awfully scared —
This is no place for a person with a nice cheerful disposition like me — it looks like those parlors in the Novels where they plot things —
All night long the train has not been flying over but going pim de pim over Great fields of snow — vast plains of snow — Great bare Countries covered with snow (Walt Whitman could have written ‘em up fine) and over all this the Moon shining — and across the window always a Golden shower of sparks — from the locomotive — it was quite worth seeing and I lay there looking out on it all and thinking of you — of you, you dearest sweetest best darling —
The City is covered in snow and little sleighs rushing madly about — All things go in sliders of course. I send you many little missives along the way — Hope they arrived! —
I must go now and wash the soot off and have my Breakfast.
Give my love to Dear Dear No. 11 and to that musty little dear Home No. 6 and for your dear self my heart is overflowing with just the most unoriginal old fashionest sort of love.
Write to me — and tell me — I go now to splash
Your Isadora
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Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) was the toast of Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, dancing her way into the hearts of her admirers. This letter was written to Gordon Craig a theatre designer and son of the actress Ellen Terry whilst she was away dancing in St Petersburg.
Incidentally if you are wondering why the letter was written on Christmas Day but dated 12 of December it was the because the Russian people followed a different calendar.
Isadora Duncan’s was a lover of log flowing scarves. Virtually every photo of her after she became famous would show here with one of her large collection of long glamour scarves. Unfortunately for her it was one of these hand-painted silk scarves that killed her. On the night of Sept 14th 1927 the scarf she was wearing caught in the open spokes of the open top sports car in which she was a passenger. According to eye witnesses she was yanked out of the car by the scarf around her neck with such force she was killed instantly when her head hit the road.
Isadora Duncan was cremated, and her ashes were placed next to those of her beloved children in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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Although perhaps better known for having six wives many of whom were executed by being beheaded so he could move on to the next one it is believed he was in love with most of them. Historians argue that a couple were marriages to consolidate political power and it just so happened that another powerful man had a reasonably good looking sister or daughter that needed a suitor and a king sounded ideal.
I have been a walk this morning with a book in my hand, but as usual I have been occupied with nothing but you: I wish I could say in an agreeable manner. I am tormented day and night. They talk of my going to Italy. ‘Tis certain I shall never recover if I am to be so long separate from you: yet with all this devotion to you I cannot persuade myself into any confidence of you….
Did I say that the human might be filed in categories? Well, and if I did, let me qualify — not all humans. You elude me. I cannot place you, cannot grasp you. I may boast that of nine out of ten, under given circumstances, I can forecast their action; that of nine out of ten, by their word or action, I may feel the pulse of their hearts. But of the tenth I despair. It is beyond me. You are that tenth.




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