Recommended Reading

Letter Insights and Anthologies:
- Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications by
William Merrill Decker (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
- Hell Hath No Fury: Women’s Letters from the End of the Affair by, Anna Holmes
(Caroll & Graf Publishers, 2002)
- The Book of Love: Writer’s and Their Love Letters Edited by Cathy N. Davidson (Penguin Group, 1992)
- The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time Edited by David H. Lowenherz (Crown Publishers, 2002)
- Famous Letters: Messages and Thoughts That Shaped Our World Edited by Frank McLynn, (A Reader’s Digest Book, 1993)

A Lifetime of Letters. . .
- Thomas Jefferson on Leadership: Executive Lessons from His Life and Letters Edited by Coy Barefoot (Plume, 2002)
- Mary Todd Lincoln—Her Life and Letters Edited by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner (Knopf, 1972)
- The Love Letters of Mark Twain (Harper, 1949)
- The Letters of Emily Dickenson Edited by Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Belknap Press of Harvard, 1958)
- The Selected Letters of James Joyce Edited by Ellmann, Richard (The Viking Press, 1966, 1975)
- Letters of E.B. White Edited by (Harper & Row, 1976)
- Letters home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence 1950-1963 Edited by Aurelia Schober Plath (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Dear Pussycat: Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan’s Legendary Editor by Helen Gurley Brown (St. Martin’s Press, 2004)

Letters Between Lovers
- The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (Penguin Classics, 2003)
- Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters: 1900-1915 Edited by Lyall Harris Powers
(Scribner, 1990)
- Katherine Mansfield’s Letters to John Middleton Murry 1913-1922 (Knopf, 1951)
- Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills (Mariner Books, 2001)
Edited by Mary Soames
- Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone De Beauvoir, 1926-1939
(Scribner, 1992)
- A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren by Simone de Beauvoir,
(New Press, 1999)
- A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
(Harvest/HBJ Book, 1989)
- I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan (Random House, 2002)