Princess Diana's letters to her family's former housekeeper are going on sale, providing an "insight" into her life behind closed doors, including wedding preparations to the then-Prince Charles, and ...

This live performance series brings fascinating correspondence, drawn from history and contemporary life, to the stage read ...

This year marks the English novelist’s 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal Ellen Wexler - ...

I wrote a letter to the editor the day Roe v. Wade was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. I wrote that responsibility for abortions had been sent back to the states. Whatever side of the issue you ...

Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000.

Long Island, N.Y., resident Thomas Dennelly is the Catholic American who wrote to Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1971, asking the famous U.S. senator where he stood on the question of abortion. In Kennedy’s ...

HENRY ADAMS stands so decidedly in the forefront of American historians and autobiographers that it perhaps need be stressed that he stands decidedly first among American letter writers. Moreover, it ...

Soren Kierkegaard, the 19th-century Danish philosopher, was right. Life is best understood backward. I have embraced a nugget of advice from my parents: Life can be summed up into three parts. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. As I read the many retrospectives over the weekend of George H. W.

Thomas Jefferson once called the letters of A person “the only full and genuine journal of his life.” By that standard, Princeton University Press’s exhaustive Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the 31st ...

IT is full time that the American public had its attention sharply recalled to one of the most original poets and especially one of the subtlest, most suggestive, most startling letter-writers that ...