True to the letter : 800 years of remarkable correspondence, documents and autographs
An anthology of private letters, sketches, signed photographs, and working drafts by some of the greatest figures in Western history and culture from the past eight centuries. This book gives privileged insight into the private lives of one hundred of the most significant figures in the worlds of literature, art, and politics, including JFK, Gandhi, and Elizabeth I
Print Book, English, 2004
Thames & Hudson, London, 2004
287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
9780500512067, 050051206X
71842364
The book features 100 pieces of correspondence, including the following: Isabella & Ferdinand of Spain; Raphael; Elizabeth I; Rubens; Rousseau; Voltaire; Louis XV/Madame Pompadour/Madame du Barry; Marquis de Sade; Casanova; Goethe; Napoleon/Josephine; Lord Byron/Shelley; Chopin; Baudelaire; Flaubert; Queen Victoria/Tennyson; Darwin; Monet; Louis Pasteur; Mark Twain; Gustav Mahler/Alma Mahler/Oskar Kokoschka; Rodin/Camille Claudel/Rilke; Mata Hari; Rasputin/Nicholas/Alexandria; Lenin/Stalin; Nijinksy/Pavlova/Duncan; DH Lawrence/Frieds Lawrence; James Joyce/Samuel Beckett; Ezra Pound/WB Yeats; Sigmund Freud; Garcia Lorca; Picasso; Chaplin/Hitchcock; Garbo/Valentino; Churchill/Somerset Maugham; Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington; Bogart/Brando; Kerouac/Burroughs; Glenn Gould/Maria Callas JFK/Jacquie Kennedy; The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
"Translated from the French, Cinq siècles sur papier : autographes et manuscrits de la collection Pedro Corrêa do Lago, by David H. Wilson."--Colophon