A picture shows love letters sent to capture French sailors, that had gone unread for 265 years.The National Archives / Renaud Morieux Love letters sent to French sailors have been opened for the ...

Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 ...

A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War. Lost French love letters from the 1750s reveal what life was like during ...

The letters remained unopened in storage for more than two centuries before Renaud Morieux read them. The National Archives / Renaud Morieux “I could spend the night writing to you … I am your forever ...

Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fianc es, wives, parents and siblings -- but never delivered -- have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written in 1757-8. Over ...

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...