'Intimate expressions': 500 years of notable love letters to go on display

National Archives exhibition includes letters from first Labour PM to aristocratic lover

The "my Darling Morris" love letter is like many across history. "I just lived for tonight when I was to have seen you," it reads. "I only wish that I was going away with you, just you and I to eat and sleep and make love together."

The letter though is different to others because it was filed away in government records: seized by police and used in a criminal trial because the writer to Morris was a man.