Read, Write

There are a wide variety of interesting, official "holidays" and observances every year, from Peach Ice Cream Day and National Frozen Foods Month to "Something on a Stick" Day and International Flirting Week.  (I could not make these up if I tried.) 

This week is Universal Letter Writing Week; although perhaps the title is a little more grandiose than necessary, it's an opportunity to highlight interesting sections of the collection.  This list contains examples and compilations of letters and correspondence from a wide range of senders, across time, and around the world. Because of the content of the letters, these compilations are scattered throughout the library.  Ask your Information Desk staff if you need help finding any of these titles!

Affectionately Yours, George Washington; a self-portrait in Letters of Friendship edited by Thomas J. Fleming.

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes.

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece edited by Joan Reardon.

Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years by Jane Goodall.

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats.

Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of President Ronald Reagan edited by Ralph Weber.

Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers edited by R. Kent Rasmussen.

Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of the First Postmodern President by Jack Cashill.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway.

First Daughters: Letters Between U.S. Presidents and Their Daughters compiled by Gerard W. Gawalt and Ann G. Gawalt. 

First White Women over the Rockies; Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 edited by Clifford Merrill Drury.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Art and Letters by Georgia O’Keeffe.

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw.

The Land was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer by Victor Davis Hanson.

Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900 edited by Christiane Fischer.

Letters from America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice by Christopher Dodd.

The Letters of Noël Coward edited by Barry Day.

Letters of the Century: America, 1900-1999 edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler. 

Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation edited by Ellen Fitzpatrick.

Letters to Our Daughters: Mothers' Words of Love edited by Kristine Van Raden and Molly Davis.
Literary Correspondence: Letters & Journals by L. Ron Hubbard.

Love Letters of Great Women edited by Ursula Doyle.

My Dear Mother: Stormy, Boastful, and Tender Letters from Distinguished Sons--from Dostoevsky to Elvis collected by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and Holly Johnson.

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Collected Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman.

Renoir, his Life, Art, and Letters by Barbara Ehrlich White.

Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections by Robert J. Oppenheimer.

The Sterling Huck Letters by Sterling Huck.

Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President by Eli Saslow.

A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters  byHenriette Pollatschek.

Things that Make us (sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World by Martha Brockenbrough.

Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence: A Friendship in Letters by Katharine Sergeant Angell White.

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars edited by Andrew Carroll.

Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons collected by Tim Russert.