Cambridge historian Renaud Morieux has published a study of over 100 personal letters to French sailors, dating from 1757-58, which he uncovered at the National Archives in Kew. The messages were seized by Britain’s Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War, taken to the Admiralty in London and never opened.
Love lost and found (cam.ac.uk)
“I cannot wait to possess you”: Reading 18th-century letters for the first time | Ars Technica
Professor Morieux's findings are published in the latest volume of Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He is author of The Society of Prisoners. Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2019)
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