Lura Royall was a Lunenburg County girl—a retired school teacher full of life well into old age. But there was a part of her life that remained a secret from her living relatives. It was a secret recently revealed in 97 letters and postcards, written across a span of 21 years, to her from a Russian émigré, Vladimir Sournin, her fiancé. These letters were part of several cubic feet of papers left in the old courthouse by former Lunenburg County clerk John L. Yates. Today's Out of the Box features this collection just in time for Valentine's Day.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/02/13/“my-dearest-miss-lura”-lunenburg-letters-illuminate-a-long-and-unlikely-love-affair/ 
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