Letters Between The Artists Beatrice Fenton (1887-1983, Top Right) And Marjorie Martinet (1886-1981,

Letters between the artists Beatrice Fenton (1887-1983, top right) and Marjorie Martinet (1886-1981, bottom left), lovers of fifty years. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian.

“… I would pour out to you the tenderest and the most fervent love I know if you were here to-night, Beloved. I wish I could do more than write it, or that I could write poetry …” (undated)

“My love is like the sea; returning – as the tide …  Lovingly with embraces pleading, gently then with kisses speaking, unto the lovely shore, your love.” (1915)