Celebration." ... your old friend ... will ... change to nobody knows who ..." / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "This letter seems to me very sentimental and I really mean it all ..." / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- "I excessively hate to be forty ... I'm not ready yet." / Edith Wharton -- "Dearest friend, To think that you are now a two months' wife, & that I have never written ..." / Florence Nightingale -- "What fun for all your friends, myself among them! ..." / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "Anyway, dear Hannah, I love him, more than before." / Mary McCarthy -- "Now I have read the letter that only you could have written ..." / Rachel Carson -- Appreciation. "I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story ..." / Beatrix Potter.
Cont.): "Lord! how I liked you! how I rejoiced in your existence!" / Virginia Woolf -- "I can thank you ... for all the good there is in me ..." / Louisa May Alcott -- "Frankie, guess who came while you were away on vacation? SAM PEPYS. Please thank whoever mailed him for me ..." / Helene Hanff -- "Gee we had a lovely time. Gosh we certainly do love you -- " / Katy Dos Passos -- "The physical distance between us now is longer but not the basis of mental communion." / Mary Ritter Beard -- "So thee sees that our friends are thinking of us. I was amazed at their generosity ..." / Carol Zens Kellam -- "Bless you for being so thoughtful and generous." / Joan Crawford -- "Thank God for the money that you continue to send me ..." / Jane Bowles.
Cont.): Consolation. "People always torture themselves in this way; I could do it, too, remembering that I hurt her, but instead I remember the happy times." / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "Your letter was a great comfort to me. I was kind of low ..." / Gertrude Stein -- " ... it takes as least 10 years to realize the death of a parent ..." / H.D. -- " ... We are all so close together, Mother, and always will be -- life or death." / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- " ... no moment must be lost when a heart is breaking ..." / Emily Dickinson -- " ... to a friend that I am afraid of writing spontaneously." / Ayn Rand -- "If one could only rid one's mind, completely of words during the night, one would be better." / Dame Edith Sitwell.
Cont.): " ... we must go now, I to die, you to live." / Hannah Arendt -- "You may say I long for death ... but I long even more to be cured." / Nancy Mitford -- The ties that bind." ... I received a letter from my friend ... it was a cordial to my heart." / Abigail Adams -- "I just wanted you to know I am thinking of you and wish I lived nearer." / Elizabeth Bishop -- "To make a house is nothing. What is awful is to remake a house after a crew of workmen have unmade it ..." / Colette -- " ... you and my own sister are the three women who are tied to my heart by a cord which can never be broken ..." / George Eliot -- "Much love to David & a world of love to you Maude dear." / Eleanor Roosevelt.
Cont.): " ... You ask if I really thought I could live in the house with two men who were inlove with me ..." / M.F.K. Fisher -- " ... Now I'll tell you what to do ..." / Peg Bracken -- "I wish I was this letter, so I could go in a plane and be with you quick." / Dorothy Parker -- " ... naturally she can't turn up back at work plus a baby ..." / Dorothy Sayers -- " ... I ... long to lay my weary head somewhere and nestle my full soul close to that of another in full sympathy -- " / Susan B. Anthony -- " ... I kept thinking of Iowa -- of the cornhusking, the snow, the sleighrides, the coasting, skating, the evenings with stories and popcorn and nuts and apples ..." / Elizabeth (Bess) Corey -- " ... it would be impossible for me not to want you as a friend." / Flannery O'Connor.
Cont.): " ... never, never did I love you better, all my beloved ones, than when I left you -- " / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- "When [women] fail, then failure must be but a challenge to others." / Amelia Earhart -- "How you men wriggle and twist, and turn your backs on all logic, before you will recognise the truth." / Clara Schumann.
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