From Arthur Miller's love letter to his wife Marilyn Monroe, to the furious letter of complaint sent to Richard Branson, these are some of the most iconic letters of all time. 

Historyu2019s most iconic angry, passionate, intense and erotic love 

History’s most iconic angry, passionate, intense and erotic love 

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James Joyce’s sexually-charged letters to his lover and muse Nora Barnacle, 1909

Julie Burchill and Camille Paglia's vitriolic war of words, 1993

Arthur Miller's lustful letter to his wife Marilyn Monroe, 1956

The let-down letter from Agnes von Kurowsky to her wartime sweetheart Ernest Hemingway, 1919

John Lennon's furious two-page tirade to Paul and Linda McCartney, 1971

Virginia Woolf’s charming and spontaneous invitation to her lover Vita Sackville-West, 1927

Gustave Flaubert's aroused letter of desire to his paramour Louise Colet, 1846

The hilariously affronted email of complaint to Richard Branson, 2009

History's most emotionally loaded missives

The most heated, passionate and intense letters of love, lust and anger ever written