This 16th-Century Korean Love Letter from a Woman to Her Dead Husband Will Break Your Heart [Letters]

This brutal, heartbreaking love letter was found in 1998, lying on the mummified body of Eung-Tae Lee, a 30-year-old Korean man who’d died in 1586, some four hundred years before. Lee was tall and bearded — “The dark mustache made me feel that he must have had a charming appearance,” says the former director of the Andong National University Museum — and left behind him a pregnant wife, the letter’s author. Here it is, via Letters of Note: More »