Happy Valentine's Day & A Save-the-Date

Valentine’s Day entry from Hone’s Every-Day Book , originally published in 1825-26: Two hundred thousand letters beyond the usual daily average, annually pass through the twopenny post-office in London on St. Valentine's Day. “Two hundred thousand twopences,” said an old gentleman as he read this in a March newspaper, “are four hundred thousand pence,” and he was going to cast up the amount—"Why,…