correspondence

Presents a collection of essays that describes the personality of Confederate General Robert E. Lee based on his unpublished personal correspondence; and examines his early years, his relationships with family and slaves, and his thoughts on military strategy.

Contains over 250 drawings and paintings along with over 150 letters of nineteenth-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Draws from letters written by Vincent van Gogh's brother Theo to examine the life and art of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter, and includes artistic exercises and games, as well as numerous illustrations.

Presents a comprehensive collection of letters written by the author's father, Thomas J. Dodd, who served as one of the U.S. prosecutors at the 1945 Nuremberg trial.

A collection of letters and excerpts from the diary of Civil War Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes compiled by his great-grandson that chronicles his experiences as a foot soldier from 1861 to 1865.

Presents the letters of wildlife researcher Jane Goodall spanning 1966-99, the period during which she made disturbing discoveries about chimpanzee behavior--warfare and murder among them--gave birth to a son, divorced and remarried, dealt with the guerrilla-kidnapping of some of her students, and suffered the loss of her second husband to cancer.

A collection of personal letters written by E.B. White from 1908 to 1985.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

A definitive collection of letters by and to JFK offers unique insights into his character and times, in a volume that includes correspondences with such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and a young John Kerry.