Andrea Clarke's choice in today's Observer

Taken from the new British Library publication, Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance, a letter written by my father to my mother, Maeve Gilmore, as published in today's Observer.

And in another review in The Economist it suggests that, '...the pen is mightier (or at least more seductive) than the txt. Rare are those' it continues, 'who pick up (as Mervyn Peake did) a pen to declare I am in love'.