Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1917 — Valentina In Literature. [ARTICLE]

Valentina In Literature.

In literature Valentine day has been touched upon for several hundred years. As far back as February 14, 1667, the famous Pepys made entry in his more -famous diary that he had been able to escape, buying his wife a valentine by buying her a ring she had long wanted, dnd he would have ha<J to get anyway. Charles Lamb wrote a sort of Invocation "to “Bishop Valentine,”'and Sammy Weller .of the Dickens family of characters forges Mr. ipickwlek’s name to a lovelorn house* maid, hoping for a valentine “in the ' 'flesh.” St. Valentine died in 270 A. D.. and his tomb Is in St Praxed’e church . in Borne, more famous, perhaps, as the tomb of Browning’s ''Paracelsus.”