Peacock's Proposal

In 1810 the comic novelist Thomas Love Peacock visited Wales, where he met and hit it off with Jane Gryffydh. After his return to England the two saw no more of each other and had no communication whatsoever for the next eight years, at which time Peacock wrote her a letter proposing marriage. She accepted.

Usually, by the time a proposal of marriage is made, it's on a pretty obvious "you can see it coming" type of basis. I have to hand it to Peacock for giving Jane Gryffydh a day like few women can have ever known.