San Antonio College Library

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Selected letters by the author of "Phenomenon of Man" written during paleontological expeditions in Asia and Africa.

This is the first comprehensive collection of correspondence between Mark Twain and his editor William D. Howells. The publishing practices and critical attitudes of the period are variously documented here as it showcases the Gilded Age in American writing.

A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia.

"These remarkable letters cover more than fifty-five years of Ayn Rand's extraordinary life, work, and thought. They begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand newly arrived in Chicago from Soviet Russia, an impoverished unknown determined to realize the promise of a land of opportunity. They move through her struggles and successes as a screenwriter, a playwright, and a novelist, her sensational triumph as the author of The Fountainhead...

Volume 1 contains correspondence with Carl Czerny, De Mancy, Alphonse Brot, Pierre, Wolff, Ferdinand Hiller, Abbe de Lamennais, Liszt's mother, Lydie Pavy, Breitkopf and Hartel, Robert Schumann, Simon Lowy, Pacini, Princess Christine Belgiojoso, the Beethoven Committee at Bonn, the "Gesellschaft der musikfreunde", Count Leo Festetics, Clara Wieck, Franz von Schober, Maurice Schlesinger, Buloz, the faculty of philosophy at the University of Konigsbert,...