From the Book - First edition.
Machine generated contents note: Introductionxi
Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton3 3
George A. Custer to Elizabeth Custer 7
John Ruskin to Euphemia Ruskin11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Constanze Mozart15
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to George Barrett19
Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna27
Harry Truman to Bess Wallace29
George Bush to Barbara Pierce33
Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell37
Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon39
Jack London to Anna Strunsky45
Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh49
Zelda Fitzgerald to F Scott Fitzgerald53
Marc Chagall to Bella Chagall57
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf59
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West62
Alfred de Musset to George Sand63
Jack Kerouac to Sebastian Sampas67
John Rodgers to Minerva Denison71
Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus79
Marjorie Fossa to Elvis Presley 83
Honor6 de Balzac to Eveline Hanska 89
Ludwig van Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved" 93
Robert Browning to George Barrett 99
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry103
Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd107
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera 111
Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman113
Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan117
Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Thomas123
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer125
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte129
George Sand to Gustave Flaubert133
Abigail Smith to John Adams135
Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren139
Mary Todd Lincoln to Harriet Wilson143
Radclyffe Hall to Evguenia Souline145
Anais Nin to Henry Miller151
Voltaire to Marie Louise Denis153
James Thurber to Eva Prout155
George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell157
Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin161
Marcel Proust to Daniel Halevy 165
Frank Lloyd Wright to Maude Miriam Noel169
Anne Sexton to Philip Legler173
Louise and Rachel Russell to Arthur Sullivan179
Elizabeth I to Thomas Seymour185
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn189
Charles Parnell to Katherine O'Shea193
Lewis Carroll to Clara H. Cunnynghame197
