Tag volumes of letters

February 15, 2013
in History, Humanities, Literature

Visit Wales: The Richard Burton Diaries Sweepstakes

February 15, 2013
in History, Humanities, Literature

Win a trip for two to Wales! Visit Wales is holding a sweepstakes to celebrate the publication of The Richard Burton Diaries, praised by the Sunday Times as “a waterfall of pleasure, funny, self-lacerating, highly indiscreet, competitive and rifted with an elegiac melancholy.” The Grand Prize Includes: 6 day/ 5

November 15, 2011
in American History, History, Humanities

Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe: Free Excerpt of Letters to Stieglitz

November 15, 2011
in American History, History, Humanities

Born November 15, 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe lived 98 years to become one of the most well known and celebrated American artists of the twentieth century. But to her husband Alfred Stieglitz, the man who had first brought her work to New York, she was “Sweetestheart”, and he was “Dearest Duck.”