Literary Letters
Correspondence between authors, poets, and literary figures that illuminates the creative process and literary movements.
4 letters in this category
Victorian Era
Literary
Letter to Elizabeth Barrett
Robert Browning → Elizabeth Barrett
I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart - and I love you too.
January 10, 1845 • London
Victorian Era
Literary
Letter from Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde → Lord Alfred Douglas
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.
January 1897 • Reading Prison
Victorian Era
Literary
Letter to Theo
Vincent van Gogh → Theo van Gogh
There is something inside me, what can it be? I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things.
July 1880 • Cuesmes, Belgium
Cold War Era
Literary
Letter on the Gulag
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn → Soviet Writers Union
Literature cannot develop between the categories 'permitted' and 'not permitted,' 'about this you may write' and 'about this you may not.'
May 1967 • Moscow