Literary Salutations

Because letters are not texts or emails, we have to write them differently. I find myself being more creative with the content of letters since I won't get a response for days or, more likely, weeks. 

I started to explore literary salutations and found myself quite amused. Check these out:

Adieu! take care of yourself; and, I entreat you, write!
This is from Frankenstein. If it has anything to do with the monster, I'd do what he says.

I kiss you, 
From Tolstoy. Okay, do it! I love the present tense! 

Your old friend and erstwhile companion,
From Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Erstwhile is a great word but if you're my former companion, why are you still writing me?

You bastard.
Call a spade a spade, George Sanders.

​A tender adieu.
Tender is a nice touch Jack Kerouac.

Me.
​I wouldn't have thought Chekhov would be so self centered.