correspondence

Chronicles the life of Galileo Galilei and his relationship with his eldest child Virginia, examining how she helped influence her father's work. Based on a series of surviving letters between father and daughter.

A collection of travel writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder including her family's trip from South Dakota to Missouri, her solo trip to San Francisco to visit her daughter, and her and Almanzo's trip from Missouri to South Dakota. Features historical photographs of their travels.

Presents the complete, annotated Civil War journal of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the colonel of the first black regiment in the conflict; and includes a selection of his letters.

Presents a collection of last letters and photographs from American soldiers who were killed in Iraq while fighting the war on terrorism.

Hundreds of letters written by American women from all backgrounds and ages to their GI's during World War II.

The diary and letters of a nurse Hemingway once planned to marry.

Genevieve Jurgensen discusses the emotions she felt after she lost both of her daughters in a drunk driving accident and chronicles the few years she was able to spend with them.

Collects letters, notes, poems, and other personal writings by twentieth-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, covering a period that ranges from 1922 to 1953, providing insights into her life and thinking.