correspondence

Collects the letters, proposals, and poems--including extant works and variants--of eighteenth-century African-American writer Phillis Wheatley, who, a teenage female slave, became the first internationally well-known Black poet in the English language. Also includes writings by her contemporaries, and an introduction to her life and career.

Presents a collection of writings by nineteenth-century author Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.

A selection of letters written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, a Parisian art dealer, as well as other friends, relatives, and colleagues, providing details of the artist's personal life and career.

A collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson that demonstrate his views on freedom and the ideas that became the foundation of the Declaration of Independence.

George Benedict chronicles the experiences he had while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War through personal letters to his friends and family.

Written over a sixty-year period, the letters in this collection include the years Vonnegut experienced as a struggling writer, intimate rememberances penned to school classmates, fellow veterans, friends and family, and commiseration and encouragement to contemporaries such as Godwin and Malamud. His personal correspondence was always alive with the unique point of view that made him the heir to Mark Twain and the letters comprise the autobiography that Kurt Vonnegut never wrote.

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.

A collection of more than 170 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, reports, and memoranda written by Alexander Hamilton between 1769 and 1804.