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Contents
Introduction
Love
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, May 1528
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, undated
Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 October 1786
Catherine the Great to Prince Potemkin, c.19 March 1774
James I to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 17 May 1620
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 21 January 1926
Between Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan, c.1530s
Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller, c.August 1932
Alexandra to Rasputin, 1909
Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton, January–February 1800
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine, 24 April 1796
Alexander II to Katya Dolgorukaya, January 1868
Josef Stalin to Pelageya Onufrieva, 29 February 1912
Family
Elizabeth I to Mary I, 16 March 1554
Vilma Grünwald to Kurt Grünwald, 11 July 1944
Kadashman-Enlil to Amenhotep III, c.1370 BC
Oliver Cromwell to Valentine Walton, 4 July 1644
Toussaint L’Ouverture to Napoleon, 12 July 1802
Alexander I to his sister Catherine, 20 September 1805
Charles I to Charles II, 29 November 1648
Svetlana Stalina to her father, Josef Stalin, mid-1930s
Augustus to Caius Caesar, 23 September AD 2
Joseph II to his brother Leopold II, 4 October 1777
Rameses the Great to Ḫattušili III, 1243 BC
Creation
Michelangelo to Giovanni da Pistoia, 1509
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin Marianne, 13 November 1777
Honoré de Balzac to Ewelina Hánska, 19 June 1836
Pablo Picasso to Marie-Thérèse Walter, 19 July 1939
John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 13 October 1819
T. S. Eliot to George Orwell, 13 July 1944
Courage
Sarah Bernhardt to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, 1915
Fanny Burney to her sister Esther, 22 March 1812
David Hughes to his parents, 21 August 1940
Discovery
Ada Lovelace to Andrew Crosse, c.16 November 1844
Wilbur Wright to the Smithsonian Institution, 30 May 1899
John Stevens Henslow to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1831
Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile and Aragon, to Christopher Columbus, 30 March 1493 and 29 April 1493
Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella, 29 April 1493
Tourism
Anton Chekhov to Anatoly Koni, 16 January 1891
Gustave Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet, 15 January 1850
War
Peter the Great to Catherine I, 27 June 1709
Napoleon to Josephine, 3 December 1805
Dwight D. Eisenhower to all Allied Troops, 5 June 1944
Catherine, Duchess of Oldenburg, to her brother Alexander I, 3 September 1812
Philip II to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, 1 July 1588
Harun al-Rashid to Nikephoros I, AD 802
Rasputin to Nicholas II, 17 July 1914
Blood
Paiankh to Nodjmet, c.1070 BC
Vladimir Lenin to the Bolsheviks of Penza, 11 August 1918
Josef Stalin to Kliment Voroshilov, 3 July 1937
Mao Zedong to the Red Guards of Tsinghua University Middle School, 1 August 1966
Josip Broz Tito to Josef Stalin, 1948
Destruction
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to Count Leopold Berchtold, 6 July 1914
Harry Truman to Irv Kupcinet, 5 August 1963
Disaster
Pliny the Younger to Tacitus, c.AD 106–107
Voltaire to M. Tronchin, 24 November 1755
Friendship
Captain A. D. Chater to his mother, Christmas 1914
Mark Antony to Octavian (later Augustus), c.33 BC
Between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, July 1862–November 1864
Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, 11 September 1939
Adolf Hitler to Benito Mussolini, 21 June 1941
Between Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great, c.1774
Folly
Georg von Hülsen to Emil von Görtz, 1892
The Marquis de Sade “to the stupid villains who torment me,” 1783
Between Empress Alexandra and Nicholas II, 1916
Decency
Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 30 July 1775
Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler, 24 December 1940
Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 13 July 1863
John Profumo to Harold Macmillan, 5 June 1963
Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev, 1 December 1963
Babur to his son Humayun, 11 January 1529
Émile Zola to Félix Faure, 13 January 1898
Lorenzo the Magnificent to his on Giovanni de Medici, 23 March 1492
Liberation
Emmeline Pankhurst to the Women’s Social and Political Union, 10 January 1913
Rosa Parks to Jessica Mitford, 26 February 1956
Nelson Mandela to Winnie Mandela, 2 April 1969
Abram Hannibal to Peter the Great, 5 March 1722
Between Simón Bolívar, Manuela Sáenz, and James Thorne, 1822–1823
Fate
Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, 28 February 1895
Between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, June 1804
Anonymous to Lord Monteagle, October 1605
Babur to Humayun, 25 December 1526
Nikita Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy, 24 & 26 October 1962
Alexander Pushkin to Jacob von Heeckeren, 25 January 1837
Power
Stalin to Valery Mezhlauk, April 1930
Winston Churchill to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 20 May 1940
Between Richard I and Saladin, October–November 1191
Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, 2 November 1917
George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton, 20 January 1993
Niccolò Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, 3 August 1514
Henry VII to his “good friends,” July 1485
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1801
Between the Duke of Marlborough, Queen Anne, and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 13 August 1704
Donald J. Trump to Kim Jong Un, 24 May 2018
Downfall
Abd Al-Rahman III to his sons, AD 961
Simon Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, c.AD 135
Ammurapi to the king of Alashiya, c.1190 BC
Aurangzeb to his son Muhammad Azam Shah, 1707
Simón Bolívar to José Flores, 9 November 1830
Goodbye
Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen, July 2016
“Henriette” to Giacomo Casanova, autumn 1749
Winston Churchill to his wife, Clementine, 17 July 1915
Nikolai Bukharin to Josef Stalin, 10 December 1937
Franz Kafka to Max Brod, June 1924
Walter Raleigh to his wife, Bess, 8 December 1603
Alan Turing to Norman Routledge, February 1952
Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, 1 April 1965
Robert Ross to More Adey, 14 December 1900
Lucrezia Borgia to Leo X, 22 June 1519
Hadrian to Antoninus Pius—and to his soul, 10 July AD 138
Acknowledgments
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