correspondence

Collects thirty-five short stories by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, with twenty excerpts from her correspondences, which address the craft of writing and her views of her own work, and eighteen critical essays by writers such as Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, and Frank O'Connor.

Presents the forty-four sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during her courtship with Robert, and features excerpts from the love letters exchanged between the couple during the time the poems were composed.

Details the early life of English naturalist Jane Goodall through letters and travel diaries from her childhood, to her education at Oxford, to her historic trip to Africa where she meets Louis Leakey and begins her work with Chimpanzees.

Presents the correspondence of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann and her rescuer and later husband, American soldier Kurt Klein, sent between May 16, 1945 and May 27, 1946, in which they shared stories of their childhoods, their families, their wartime experiences and emotions, and their growing love for each other.

Longfellow's affectionate love letter to his three daughters.

Presents a detailed biography of Johnny Cash, through letters written to his first wife, Vivian, that reveals their early life together, as well as the truth about his drug addiction and infidelity.

These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechtenolder, established, and whitewas at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendshipand for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They gossiped about the people they knew in commonJames Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union), and always with playfulness and mutual affection..

Presents more than one thousand letters written by Ronald Reagan to family, friends, and colleagues, as well as unknown supporters and detractors, over the course of seventy-two years from 1922 to 1994, grouped by topic, with explanatory introductions when needed.

A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both published materials and private correspondence. Includes a biographical profile, chapter introductions, and annotations.