Back in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott wrote this last letter to his wife, I found it very moving:
To my widow
Dearest Darling — we are in a very tight corner and I have doubts of pulling through–In our short lunch hours I take advantage of a very small measure of warmth to write letters preparatory to a possible end — the first is naturally to you on whom my thoughts mostly dwell waking or sleeping — if anything happens to me I shall like you to know how much you have meant to me and that pleasant recollections are with me as I depart –
