‘I Suppose It’s Playing the Game That Counts’
During a tough year in which she lost three friends and her "pep" as a writer, WILLA CATHER…
Overqualified?
Feeling boxed in and in need of new challenges at age 30, LEONARDO DA VINCI relocated from his…
‘A Life Is But a Day and Expresses But a Single Note’
In December 1882 the distinguished psychologist WILLIAM JAMES learned that his father was dying, and immediately penned a…
A Tortured Chronicle: Severn Documents Keats’s Last Days
As JOHN KEATS lay dying in 1821, he only companion was JOSEPH SEVERN, who in letters to the…
‘I Will Imagine You Venus To Night’
To his beloved FANNY BRAWNE JOHN KEATS wrote some of the most torrid and revealing love letters in…
Synesius of Cyrene to Hypatia
What little we know about HYPATIA, of ancient Alexandria we know from the letters of her devoted student,…
Johnny Cash to Carl Perkins
WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE: In a previously unpublished letter written in April 1981, JOHNNY CASH apprises CARL PERKINS of his…
H.L. MENCKEN TO WILL DURANT
In 1933, WILL DURANT, author of The Story of Philosophy, asked H.L. MENCKEN, the Sage of Baltimore, to…