Manuscripts and letters

Honore De Balzac - drawing by Mary Evans . "Balzac is great!" Fyodor Dostoevsky* in a letter to his...

Oscar Wilde’s Journal . “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the...

Vincent van Gogh, The Parisian Novels Or The Yellow Books, 1887 ‘Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting,...

Daniil Kharms . “The Russian spirit is either the singing of a choir or the nasal droning of a deacon....

Bag One / Erotic Lithographs, John Lennon, 1968-69 Bag One / Erotic Lithographs, John Lennon, 1968-69 Bag One / Erotic...

Anne Estelle Rice - Portrait of Katherine Mansfield - 1918 . "The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one...

Bernard Plossu . “Life is a railroad station; soon I will set out - for where? I will not say.”...

L. S. Lowry, Man Lying on a Wall, 1957 . “It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We...

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, 1950 . "But what a funny thing it is to travel like that, leaving...

Alfred Stieglitz, Shadows in Lake, 1916 . . "All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely...