 | My Love Affair with the State of Maine
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 |  | The Correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777
Publication Date: June 20, 1992In this historically significant volume, America's ranking botany biographers present all 602 letters known to exist that were written to or from John Bartram, one of the most important scientific figures of the eighteenth century. ...
|  | The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914 (Civil War America)
Release Date: December 9, 2003| Series: Civil War America Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went on to serve as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. The first collection of his postwar letters, this book offers important insights for understanding Chamberlain's later years and his place in chronicling the war.The letters i...
|  | Letters from the Pacific: A World War II Romance
Publication Date: June 30, 2012This is the story of Jane and Chuck Flynn, five years married and actors by profession, who give up their happy life in Hollywood to serve their country. Chuck joins the Navy, and sees action in the Pacific, where his ship is hit. Jane joins the USO and is sent on a tour of the Pacific. It's a heady atmosphere, with the girls constantly surrounded by adoring men. These letters convey the charm and intimacy of Jane and Chuck's relationship during the difficult days of World War II. ...
|  | DIARY AND LETTERS OF A WORLD WAR I FIGHTER PILOT, THE
Publication Date: November 2008This is a first-hand account of the author's grandfather, Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his experiences as a pilot in the R.F.C. in the First World War written as a series of letters and diary entries.He wrote letters virtually every day to his family, while he trained in England and was in service in France, and often illustrated them with little sketches.Guy was a gifted artist, particularly pencil and pen and ink, and also an excellent photographer.He flew with No 65 (Fighter) Squadron that was formed in June, 1916 as a fighter squadron, and flew to France in M...
|  | Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century
Release Date: July 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0814732003 | ISBN-13: 978-08147320072008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century.Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a...
|  | On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage
Publication Date: December 1, 2012Life on board the world's most famous ship, in the words of the passengers themselvesUtilizing many documents not seen since 1912, here Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of the disaster entirely in their own words via the texts of letters, postcards, diary entries, and memoirs that were written before, during, and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the presailing documents were written by people who later lost their lives in the sinking, and represent the last communications these people ever had with their fri...
|  | Letters from Father Seraphim
Publication Date: July 31, 2008More insite in to the wisdom and life of Father Seraphim ...
|  | The Letters of William S. Burroughs, Vol. 1: 1945-1959
Release Date: June 1, 1994This volume of correspondence vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his text. "Sheds light on both the personal demons and lacerating misanthropy that inspired Burroughs' brilliant literary highjinks."-- Entertainment Weekly. ...
|  | Ocean Pathways (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Ocean Pathways is an historical and informative book based on the personal experience of Maryknoll Sisters who lived in the Marshall Islands with the Marshallese from the mid-1900s through 2010.The material shared in this book includes history of the Marshall Islands, the culture, the people, the environs and its effect on the life style, and the local government.It also speaks to the influence of the United Nations in developing these islands, and the role of the United States. ...
|  | Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton)
Release Date: October 7, 2008| Series: Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was one of the most influential spiritual writers of modern times. A Trappist monk, peace and civil rights activist, and widely-praised literary figure, Merton was renowned for his pioneering work in contemplative spirituality, his quest to understand Eastern thought and integrate it with Western spirituality, and his firm belief in Christian activism. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, is the defining spiritual memoir of its time, selling over one million copies and translati...
|  | Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
Release Date: April 8, 2008"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years.Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein...
|  | Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
Release Date: October 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 031238615X | ISBN-13: 978-0312386153| Edition: First Edition From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after the assassination of John F. KennedyIn the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received more than one million letters. The impact of President Kennedy’s death was so immense that people from every station in life wrote to her, sharing their feelings of sympathy, ...
|  | Selected Letters (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1997| Series: Penguin Classics This is a revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew - and knows - little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, o...
|  | Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
Publication Date: September 27, 2001| ISBN-10: 0199247730 | ISBN-13: 978-0199247738This book is the first comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to appear in English. Over 550 are included, virtually all uncut, and there are over a dozen published here for the first time in any language. Although he corresponded throughout his life with some of the great performers, composers, musicologists, writers, scientists, and artists of the day, and although thousands of his letters have survived, English readers have until now had scant opportunity to meet Brahms in perso...
|  | Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo
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|  | The Letters of Noel Coward
Release Date: November 13, 2007A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noël Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age—from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. The range, charm, and vitality of his talents—he was a playwright, actor, composer, librettist, lyricist, director, painter, writer, cabaret singer, wit—brought him into close encounters, and often close friendship, with the great and the gifted. He knew everybody who was anybody in the theate...
|  | Adams Family Correspondence Vols. 5 & 6: December 1784-December 1785 (The Adams Papers, Series II, Adams Family Correspondence) (v. 5 & 6)
Publication Date: December 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 067400406X | ISBN-13: 978-0674004061| Edition: 6"I cannot O! I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?'' So begins Abigail Adams' correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress.In October 178...
|  | The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume III
Publication Date: March 18, 2004| Series: Letters of Hildegard of Bingen This is the third and final volume of the complete annotated correspondence of the extraordinary nun, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). One of the most remarkable women of her day, Hildegard was, for more than 30 years, an unflinching advisor and correspondent of all levels of church and society, from popes and kings to ordinary lay persons, from Jerusalem to England.This present volume (letters 218-390) is noteworthy for its large collection of letters to a non-ecclesiastical audience, and because it contains letters no...
|  | Kids' Letters to President Obama
Release Date: April 14, 2009Barack Obama has inspired millions of people around the world–and an unwavering chorus of those admirers are children. This delightfully charming collection includes more than two hundred letters that kids have written to President Obama. Some of these messages are humorous, some are heartwarming, all of them are sincere–making this volume the perfect gift for any occasion.The children ask questions: “Why did you want to be president?” “Do you think you could pass a law making chocolate a vegetable in our country?” They gi...
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