A Valentine’s Day feature sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper has found that a love letter written by Johnny Cash to his wife June in 1994 is judged by readers the greatest such missive of all time. Writers today are recalling Cash’s rather stoic image in the context of this letter revealing a deeply romantic soul. His relationship with wife June Carter Cash was chronicled in the movie ‘Walk the Line,’ as well as ‘Anchored in Love,’ a book written by their son, John Carter Cash. The letter was written to mark June’s birthday and reads in part: “Once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.” Cash wrote while he was in Odense, Denmark. “You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence.” The sweet letter has been voted the greatest love letter of all time by the readers of the Daily Mail in the U.K., topping romantic missives from Napolean, Richard Burton, Beethoven, King Henry VIII and John Keats. See the note and read it here.
