#letter collection

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

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Cover Art | Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by Jasmine L. Holmes

“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll grow up with stories of having been made to feel ‘other’ because of the color of his skin. I want to teach him that, though life’s unfair, he still has incomparable value in the eyes of his heavenly Father. I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world―and I want him to know it too.”

In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian, and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to read over her shoulder as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.

Release date | Mar 24, 2020 Goodreads

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

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Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

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George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert written c. September 1871

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf 

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Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940