correspondence

A collection of children's letters from the 1930s through the 1950s sent to Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the nine "Little House" books.

A collection of correspondences between baseball legend Jackie Robinson and prominent figures, such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, discussing issues about racism and civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s.

A collection of letters written by poet Rainre Maria Rilke to one of his students. Each letter offers wisdom on writing and life in general.

Presents a collection of sixty-five letters written from 1863 to 1865 by the Ovid Butler family of Indianapolis to Scot Butler who served with the thirty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and describes economic and political conditions in their community along with social and religious happenings.

The author presents a collection of letters he wrote home during during World War Two, and recalls his experience in basic training and in Europe, as part of the American occupation force in Germany, of witnessing the Nuremburg trials, and much more.

Presents a collection of three hundred letters and postcards John Lennon wrote to family, friends, lovers and complete strangers.

A compilation of travel writings by president and statesman Thomas Jefferson that describes his journeys throughout the eastern United States and Europe, drawing on journals, personal correspondence, and other writings.

Presents a history of the Civil War through the eyes of American poet, Walt Whitman, and his family, through many letters that Whitman, his brothers, and mother wrote to each other during the war years.

Examines the character of Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi, whose forces attempted to defend the island of Iwo Jima in February and March of 1945, through both interviews with Japanese survivors of the battle as well as through the personal letters that Kuribayashi wrote home.

Collects hundreds of letters spanning the life of nineteenth-century Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, including correspondence with such figures as W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, William Gladstone, and Max Beerbohm.