1837 – 1901
Victorian Era
Correspondence from the reign of Queen Victoria, reflecting industrialization, empire, and social change.
3 letters from this era
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