Manuscripts and letters

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with a Lark, 1887 . "Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself...

Pierre Boncompain . “I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how...

André Kertész, Greenwich Village, New York, 1966 . "You said that we owe literature almost everything we are and what...

Gustave Courbet, The Woman in a Podoscaphe, 1865 . "Rubens, ah, there you have it, he was a handsome man...

Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer, 1917 . "No, I didn’t imagine my being alone with you the way you do....

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary, 1953 Virginia Woolf , Three...

Maria Casares and Albert Camus, 1948 . “We met, we recognised each other, we abandoned ourselves one to the other....

Cedric Wright: Ansel Adams sets up a shot on his car-top camera platform, Yosemite, California, 1942 . June 19, 1937...

W. Eugene Smith, 1941. "I have a childish hope to gather all I love together and sit down beside and...

Paul Pryor, A young lady inserts maps into National Geographic magazines, 1930's . "It's rather nice to think of oneself...