"How come you never write anymore about my lips being as fresh as the wilding hedge-rose-cup from which the dew drop slips? Answer me that."

For your bliss, or your bitterness:  Wellesley College and Baylor University have digitized more 1600 of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's letters.  (Even the envelopes).  573 are love letters to each other.
Here's a belated link to the New York Times article about the project:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/elizabeth-barrett-browning/




Portrait by William Charles Ross.  Photo from Today in Literature.  http://tinyurl.com/8657wcm