Diaries, Letters & Journals

When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother''s effects, he realised that he had the means of r...

As his 50th birthday dawned, Peter Dunne had a life-changing conversation with a friend and realised that, while he may not have invented the int...

A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and...

The Frontline Napoleonic Library is an unparalleled collection of classic works on the Napoleonic Wars. Presenting some of the finest memoirs and s...

This book analyses the representations of the different instances of war in the letters and diaries of the nurses and doctors of the Scottish Women...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.John Muir is kn...

Early in his career, the composer Arnold Schoenberg maintained correspondence with many notable figures: Gustav Mahler, Heinrich Schenker, Guido Ad...

These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypa...

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, ...