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Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller, c.August 1932: Henry and June from A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1932, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Rupert Pole as the trustee under The Last Will and Testament of Anaïs Nin. Reproduced with permission from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved;
Alexandra to Rasputin, 1909: Rasputin: The Biography, Douglas Smith, Macmillan, 2016. p. 246. Reproduced with permission from Macmillan through PLSclear.
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Josef Stalin to Pelageya Onufrieva, 29 February 1912: Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007;
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Svetlana Stalina to her father, Josef Stalin, mid-1930s: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010, p. 186.
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Rameses the Great to Ḫattušili III, 1243 BC : The Kingdom of the Hittites, Trevor Bryce, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 284. Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.
Michelangelo to Giovanni da Pistoia, 1509: “Michelangelo: To Giovanni Da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel (by Michelangelo Buonarroti)” from Zeppo’s First Wife, Gail Mazur. Copyright © 2005 by Gail Mazur. Reproduced with permission from G. Mazur.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin Marianne, 13 November 1777: Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life, edited and translated by Robert Spaethling, W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. Reproduced with permission from W. W. Norton & Co. and from Faber & Faber Ltd.
Honoré de Balzac to Ewelina Hánska, 19 June 1836: The Letters of Honore de Balzac to Madame Hanska, translated by Katherine P. Wormeley, Hardy, Pratt and Company, 1900.
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Sarah Bernhardt to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, 1915: My Life and Some Letters, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West), Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922.
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Gustave Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet, 15 January 1850: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Volume I, 1830–1857, selected, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1979, 1980 by Francis Steegmuller. Reproduced with permission;
Peter the Great to his wife, Catherine I, 27 June 1709: The Romanovs: 1613–1918, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
Napoleon to Josephine, 3 December 1805: Chronological Table of the Principal Events in the Life of Napoleon, Ben Weider. Reproduced with permission from the International Napoleonic Society; p. 117
Dwight D. Eisenhower to all Allied troops, 5 June 1944: In Case of Failure, Message Drafted by General Dwight Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed, 6/5/1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Pre-Presidential Papers. Principal File: Butcher Diary 1942–1945. National Archives Identifier: 186470.
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Philip II to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, 1 July 1588: The Spanish Armada, Colin Martin, Geoffrey Parker, Manchester University Press, 1999, p. 143 and p. 163. Reproduced with permission from Manchester University Press through PLSclear.
Harun al-Rashid to Nikephoros I, AD 802: Isfahani, Aghani, ed. Bulaq, XVII, 44 = ed. Cairo, XVIII, 239; Mas’udi, Muruj, II, 337 = ed. Pallat, * 757; K. al-’Uyun, 309–10; Ibn al-Athir, VI, 184–5; Palmer, 75–6; trans. Brooks, EHR, XV (1900), 742–3. Cited in The History of al-Tabari, Volume XXX “The ‘Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium,” al-Tabari, translated by C. E. Bosworth, SUNY, Albany, 1989, p. 240, tract [696].
Rasputin to Nicholas II, 17 July 1914: Rasputin: The Biography, Douglas Smith, Macmillan, 2016, p. 363. Reproduced with permission from Macmillan.
Vladimir Lenin to the Bolsheviks of Penza, 11 August 1918: Lenin: A Biography, Robert Service, Macmillan, 2000, p. 365. Reproduced with permission from Macmillan.
Mao Zedong to the Red Guards of Tsinghua University Middle School, 1 August 1966: Long Live Mao Tse-tung Thought, a Red Guard Publication. Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project.
Josip Broz Tito to Josef Stalin, 1948: Stalin: A Biography, Robert Service, Macmillan, 2004, p. 592. Reproduced with permission from Macmillan.
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to Count Leopold Berchtold, 6 July 1914: The “Blank Check,” World War I Document Archive. http://www.gwpda.org/1914/blankche.html, GWPDA.org
Harry Truman to Irv Kupcinet, 5 August 1963: Truman Papers, Post-Presidential File. Chicago Sun-Times. Harry S. Truman Library.
Captain A.D. Chater to his mother, Christmas 1914: The Family of Captain A. D. Chater.
Georg von Hülsen to Emil von Görtz, 1892: The Kaiser and his Court, John C. G. Röhl. Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 16. Translated from Eulenbergs Korrespondenz, II, p. 953. Reproduced with permission from Cambridge University Press.
The Marquis de Sade “to the stupid villains who torment me,” 1783: Selected Letters of Marquis de Sade, edited by Margaret Crosland, Peter Owen, 1965. Reproduced with permission from Peter Owen Publishers UK.
Between Empress Alexandra and Nicholas II, 1916: The Romanovs: 1613–1918, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 30 July 1775: Secrets of Marie Antoinette: A Collection of Letters, edited by Olivier Bernier, Fromm, 1986, p. 172. Reproduced with permission from Olivier Bernier.
Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler, 24 December 1940: Letter to Adolf Hitler, As at Wardha, December 24, 1940.
Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 13 July 1863: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler et al., Abraham Lincoln Association, 1953.
Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev, 1 December 1963: The Death of a President, November 20–November 25, 1
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Babur to his son Humayun, 11 January 1529: An Unpublished Testament of Babur, N. C. Mehta, The Twentieth Century, 1936, p. 340.
Émile Zola to Félix Faure, 13 January 1898: L’Aurore, Jan. 13, 1898, translated by Chameleon Translations;
Emmeline Pankhurst to the Women’s Social and Political Union, 10 January 1913: National Archives.
Rosa Parks to Jessica Mitford, 26 February 1956: Rosa Parks Papers: General Correspondence, 2006; Alphabetical file; Mitford, Jessica “Decca” Treuhaft, letter from Parks, 1956. Rosa Parks used with permission from The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. All rights reserved.
Nelson Mandela to Winnie Mandela, 2 April 1969: The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela, Liveright Publishing Corp., 2018, in cooperation with the Estate of Nelson Mandela and the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa. Reproduced with permission from The Estate of Nelson Mandela.
Abram Hannibal to Peter the Great, 5 March 1722: Hannibal: The Moor of Petersburg, Hugh Barnes, Profile Books, 2006. Courtesy of Profile Books.
Between Simón Bolívar, Manuela Sáenz and James Thorne, 1822–1823: Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America, Marie Arana, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014;
Alexander Pushkin to Jacob von Heeckeren, 25 January 1837: Pushkin, Ernest J. Simmons, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1937 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Stalin to Valery Mezhlauk, April 1930: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010.
Winston Churchill to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 20 May 1940: Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd on behalf of The Estate of Sir Winston S. Churchill © The Estate of Winston S. Churchill.
Between Richard I and Saladin, October–November 1191: Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Stanley Lane-Poole, Greenhill Books, 2002. Reproduced with permission;
Niccolò Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, 3 August 1514: Reprinted from Machiavelli and His Friend, edited and translated by James Atkinson & David Sices, with permission from Northern Illinois University Press. Copyright © 2004.
Donald J. Trump to Kim Jong Un, 24 May 2018: Letter to Chairman Kim Jong Un, The White House Statements & Releases, Foreign Policy. Issued on: May 24, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/letter-chairman-kim-jong-un/
Simon Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, c.AD 135: Bar Kockba Letter, translated by Dr. William Bean.
Ammurapi to the king of Alashiya, c.1190 BC: A New evidence on the last days of Ugarit, Astour, M. C., Archeological Institute of America, 1965, p. 255. Reproduced with permission from the Archeological Institute of America.
Simón Bolívar to Juan José Flores, 9 November 1830: Bolivar, Marie Arana, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014.
Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen, July 2016: Reproduced with permission from The Estate of Leonard Cohen.
“Henriette” to Giacomo Casanova, autumn 1749: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 2 “To Paris and Prison,” Giacomo Casanova, Start Publishing LLC, 2013.
Winston Churchill to his wife, Clementine, 1915: Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd on behalf of The Estate of Sir Winston S. Churchill © The Estate of Winston S. Churchill.
Franz Kafka to Max Brod, June 1924: The Trial, Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, Secker, © 1986. All Kafka material is copyrighted by Schocken Books Inc, New York. Translation and Notes © Schocken Books Inc. 1958, 1977. Reproduced with permission from The Random House Group Ltd.
Alan Turing to Norman Routledge, February 1952: Unpublished writings of A. M. Turing © copyright The Provost and Scholars of King’s College Cambridge 2018. Reproduced with permission.
Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, 1 April 1965: The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Che Guevara, translated by Michael J. Taber, Pathfinder, 1994, p. 81. El Diario del Che en Bolivia copyright © 1987, 1988 by Editoria Politica. Copyright © 1994 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission.
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