Not keep a journal | Jane Austen, 1803
Jane Austen, manuscript of unfinished novel The Watsons, 1803 “But, perhaps, I keep no journal." Perhaps you are not sitting...
Manuscripts and letters
Love Letters | Lucian Freud to Caroline Blackwood, 1952
Lucian Freud, 1952 My dearest Caroline I am feeling heavywith sadness this morningI can hardly move. I missyou so much...
A Merrier Christmas | Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk, A Merrier Christmas (Autograph Manuscript) "A Merrier Christmas" was a composition that Thelonious Monk wrote for his family,...
My great adventure is really Proust | Virginia Woolf, 1912-22
Virginia Woolf / Marcel Proust “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the...
Days [ ) Waiting | Bob Dylan, 1960s
Jim Marshall, Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo in a Greenwich Village cafe, 1963 “Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I...
To the sea | A Letter from Rainer Maria Rilke to his wife Clara, 1903
Robin Cracknell "When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out...
All Of Me | A song by Billie Holiday, 1941
Billie Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOT9tmK70oY&list=RDVOT9tmK70oY&start_radio=1 Billie Holiday - All Of Me - 1941 Yes, all of me, why not take all of...
On [:] Poetry | Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1870
Carl Larsson, Portrait of Dora Lamm, 1900 “If I read a book it makes my whole body so cold no...
Tolstoy’s illness is beyond me | A Letter by Anton Chekhov, 1900
Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy in Gaspra, Crimea, 1901 To Mikhail Osipovich Yalta, January 28, 1900 Dear Mikhail Osipovich, Tolstoy’s...
A letter to P.J. Harvey | Nick Cave, 1996
Nick Cave, P.J. Harvey, 1996 . Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste...