Love Letter 6
TO MY MISTRESS. Because
the time seems very long since
I heard concerning your health and
you, the great afFeftion I have for
you has induced me to send you this
bearer, to be better informed of your
health and pleasure, and because,
since my parting from you, I have
been told that the opinion in which
I left you is totally changed, and that
you would not come to court either
with your mother, if you could, or in
any other manner; which report, if
true, I cannot sufficiently marvel at,
because I am sure that I have since
never done any thing to offend you,
and it seems a very poor return for the
great love which I bear you to keep
me at a distance both from the speech
and the person of the woman that I
esteem most in the world: and if you
love me with as much affection as I
hope you do, I am sure that the dis-
tance of our two persons would be
a little irksome to you, though this
does not belong so much to the mis-
tress as to the servant.
Consider well, my mistress, that
absence from you grieves me sorely,
hoping that it is not your will that
it should be so; but if I knew for cer-
tain that you voluntarily desired it,
I could do no other than mourn my
ill-fortune, and by degrees abate my
great folly. And so, for lack of time,
I make an end of this rude letter, be-
seeching you to give credence to this
bearer in all that he will tell you
from me.
Written by the hand of your en-
tire Servant,
H.R.
I found this website very interesting.
As i am in love with henry i am, very jealous of anne xxxx
you envy her?… you know he chopped off her head right…
I love how Henry felt so deeply about everything. He was a passionate man.
“I am sure that I have since
never done any thing to offend you,
and it seems a very poor return for the
great love which I bear you to keep
me at a distance both from the speech
and the person of the woman that I
esteem most in the world”
Aww poor Henry. I love this letter <3
henry wrote some adorable letters to his girly girly
the bearer brought an additional message:” give credence to all that he will tell you from me.” Now THAT is what i’d like to hear, but never will. I can only imagine…… like the cipher, it is this type of mystery that intrigues me most.
When you think about it, as things went south later on and Henry became Anne’s worst enemy and murderer, reflecting on these letters and their seemingly false statements to always cherish her and her alone, is quite sickening to me.
I love reading these letters and looking through this website! I found out a few years ago that Jasper Tudor is my great (like 12th or something) grandfather! so even though Henry is his great nephew (? I think) then he is my distant relative. I am so obsessed with the Tudors and have done so much research but I still find everything so fascinating!!
Wow! How wonderful to have that link!
I think that Henry was very sincere in his letters to Anne Boleyn although she’s just another woman that he is infatuated by he can write all the mushy letters he can muster up in his little heart that where it all comes down to is a bunch of BS if you ask me because she lost her head due to his having his way with her the flame headed gone out probably right after they slept together the first time. And how he probably thought that she would change not be the strong bald woman that she was I think he was expecting more of you’re not being so. Other words he’s expecting her to not have a backbone the speak up for herself and which that was not the case she was a strong-willed woman and she had her strong beliefs and she spoke out boldly