First published 2024
This collection gathers correspondence that shaped history and revealed human nature across centuries. Fort Raphael Publishing selected letters from world leaders, artists, scientists, and ordinary people whose words endured beyond their time. Philip II of Macedon threatens Spartan invasion. Martin Luther King Jr. writes from Birmingham Jail. Abraham Lincoln consoles a grieving Civil War mother. Virginia Woolf leaves her final words to her husband. Dorothy Parker complains about hospital tedium. Gandhi appeals to Hitler for peace. Napoleon Bonaparte pressures Josephine for romantic letters. Vincent Van Gogh reconciles with his brother. Richard Feynman addresses his dead wife. Sigmund Freud ends his friendship with Carl Jung. These letters span emotions from comedy to tragedy, revealing how written words connect us across time and circumstance.
Genres: biography, history, 20th-century, 21st-century, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: epistolary, historical-figures
Setting: Birmingham, Spartan
Period: Civil War, Centuries
97 pages · Kindle Edition · Ft. Raphael Publishing Company