Billet Doux

A beautiful billet-doux sent from Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway (1786). 

“Friendship is precious not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and, thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine”. 

If you have a love letter that you’d like me to read right here ON AIR for all the world to hear, send it to me via email at [email protected]. 

If you’re struggling to find the words with which to sweep your beloved off his/her feet, reach out to me at [email protected]. Together, we’ll compose the perfect love letter with which to get the job done! 

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Check out my other projects: 

Finneran’s Wake (Interviews) 

Pneuma (Meditations)

A beautiful love story, written by Hector Berlioz for Harriet Smithson (1865). 

“A plan began to take shape in my mind: Harriet Smithson should hear of me! She should know that I also was an artist!” 

If you have a love letter that you’d like me to read right here ON AIR for all the world to hear, send it to me via email at [email protected]. 

If you’re struggling to find the words with which to sweep your beloved off his/her feet, reach out to me at [email protected]. Together, we’ll compose the perfect love letter with which to get the job done! 

Instagram: @danielethanfinneran https://www.instagram.com/danielethanfinneran/

Wait! 

Before you go…

Take a peek at my other podcasts: 

Finneran’s Wake (Interviews) 

Pneuma (Meditations) 

Welcome to Billet Doux, a show about literature and love. 

On this show, dear friend–than which you’ll not find another lovelier, nor sweeter–we’ll read some of the most arrestingly beautiful love letters ever to have been penned. 

Letters written by, to take just a few noteworthy examples: Michelangelo, Beethoven, Elizabeth Taylor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Nancy Reagan, and Oscar Wilde. 

What’s more...

You, dear friend, will have the opportunity to submit a love letter of your own composition–of your very own making–of which I, in my role as humble host, will perform a reading. 

Before the entire world, an audience spanning countless countries, you can make known to your beloved precisely how you feel about him (or her).

Please, send your letters and comments to [email protected].

I hope that you enjoy this program.