by Honor McCusker (1938)
Based on a group of letters, mostly written to John Sullivan Dwight, covering the period from the 1840s to the 1890s, see page 5.
Rosa Parks, with Gregory J. Reed
Presents correspondence between Rosa Parks and various children in which the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement" answers questions and encourages young people to reach their highest potential.
Muriel Knox Doherty
A collection of letters in which Muriel Knox Doherty chronicles the experiences she had serving as Chief Nurse after British troops arrived at Belsen concentration camp in April, 1945.
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"Spanning the years 1861 to 1893, from two months before his twenty-first birthday to six weeks before his death in Moscow at the age of fifty-three, this collection of nearly seven hundred letters traces the life of the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), best known for Romeo and Juliet (1869), Swan Lake (1877), 1812 Overture (1880), and The Nutcracker (1892). These letters offer unique and initimate insights into the composer's life and shed light on the social and political climate in which he lived. Tchaikovsky discusses both his own music and that of his contemporaries, as well as literature, art, and, in a long missive, his reactions to the New World. This volume offers a revelatory look at a man universally acknowledged as one of the masters of classical music."--BOOK JACKET.
Jenifer Glynn
"Living in Palestine as the wife of the British Attorney-General, Helen Bentwich was immersed in the politics and society of the early years of the British Mandate. Despite her connections she remained in some ways an outsider - a critical observer, writing candid weekly letters to her mother that give insight into the cauldron of races and traditions, the intolerance and the idealism, that lie behind the history of 20th-century Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel. The selection of her letters in this book mixes political comment with details of personal life and gossip. The gossip reveals a society that has gone, but the political and religious problems are familiar today. Her family were well aware of the situation in Palestine, and she wanted to amuse rather than alarm them, but the frustrations and worries break through the letters' superficial cheerfulness to provide a picture of the period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.