Definition of "love-letter" []

• A letter professing love; a letter of courtship; a billet-doux. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Also in the running for best SF comics were Warren Ellis 'Anna Mercury and his spectacular love-letter to pulp space adventure Ignition City, John Byrne's Star Trek series Romulans: Schism, and the relatively new Farscape book, which continues the departed TV series."
• "Justin really is a love-letter from all three of us to the Glen Larsens and Steven J. Cannalls of our youth."
• "Nicholas Wright, who in the past 12 months has given us plays about Terence Rattigan and the Duchess of Windsor, is emphatically one of the latter, and in Travelling Light he has come up with a love-letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture that formed the basis of American cinema."