Virginia Treasures: Romantic Virginians

Discover the many ways Virginians have experienced love and loss over nearly four centuries through letters, diaries and other intimate expressions culled from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) extensive manuscript collections. 

Through the private writings of Virginians known and unknown, explore arranged marriages in the colonial era, soldiers pitching woo in wartime, a 20th-century courtship nearly derailed by conflicting religious beliefs, the turmoil of coming out as a gay man in 1970s Richmond and much more.

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