Manuscripts and letters

Natalie Clifford Barney "Oh, hands that I have loved, eyes that I havefollowed, hair that I have sobbed to touch."...

Apostle Paul, Epistle to the Corinthians 1, 14th century Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,...

Ingeborg Bachmann in a rowing boat on Klagenfurt Wörthersee “I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of...

Eva Palmer, c 1900 How pale is all reality next to the mere dream of you; my sweetest sunlit desire...

Κηφισιά, 10 Αυγούστου 1962 μεσημέρι Αγαπητέ μου κύριε Καχτίτση, Σαν ενημερώνω επί του ακολούθου συμβάντος, που έλαβε χώρα στο γραφείο...

Vincent van Gogh, Patch of grass, 1887 “Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened...

Jane Austen, manuscript of unfinished novel The Watsons, 1803 “But, perhaps, I keep no journal." Perhaps you are not sitting...

Lucian Freud, 1952 My dearest Caroline I am feeling heavywith sadness this morningI can hardly move. I missyou so much...

Thelonious Monk, A Merrier Christmas (Autograph Manuscript) "A Merrier Christmas" was a composition that Thelonious Monk wrote for his family,...

Virginia Woolf / Marcel Proust “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the...