Diaries, Letters & Journals

Ive had an amazing idea! / Original, brand new and fool-proof / Brilliant, illusory, single-solutionary / Unlike things previous / This is inge...

Caerlaverock Castle - in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family. Reproduced here in facsimile, with half-ton...

Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring aliv...

Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a ...

A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth, Cézanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging intellect and ferocious w...

The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, ...

Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served t...

There is scarcely one letter by Van Gogh which I, who am certainly no expert, do not find fascinating. W. H. Auden In addition to his many remarkab...