title: The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters
author: Cathy N. Davidson
description: Delightful and insightful, this collection explores the many varietes of love letters. Divided into six parts--from "Falling in Love" to "Absence" to "The End of Love"--as well as several subsections, the book includes writers from Sappho to Stendhal, Walt Whitman to Vaclav Havel. While some missives illuminate famous romances, less expected letters also intrigue: Emma Goldman's plea to a married man ("You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood"), Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou's pre-battle message to his wife ("Sarah, my love for you is deathless"), nurse Agnes von Kurowsky's rejection of 19-year-old Ernest Hemingway ("Ernie, dear boy") and the imprisoned Nelson Mandela's advice for his distant daughter ("never . . . allow anybody . . . to bully you"). Davidson, a professor of English literature at Duke University, prefaces each letter with informative biographical comments that are often as engrossing as the letters themselves. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Love Letters
  
  Emily Murdoch
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Emily Murdoch 2014
  
  Emily Murdoch has asserted her rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  This edition published in 2014 by Endeavour Press Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_003.html#filepos2550)
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_004.html#filepos11769)
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_005.html#filepos25307)
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_006.html#filepos43922)
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_007.html#filepos59457)
  
  [Chapter Six](index_split_008.html#filepos69759)
  
  [Chapter Seven](index_split_009.html#filepos87997)
  
  [Chapter Eight](index_split_010.html#filepos105557)
  
  [Chapter Nine](index_split_011.html#filepos113423)
  
  [Chapter Ten](index_split_012.html#filepos131349)
  
  [Chapter Eleven](index_split_013.html#filepos145681)
  
  [Extract from Conquests by Emily Murdoch](index_split_014.html#filepos159590)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  “Catheryn!”
  
  The clear voice called out