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Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, May 1528 |
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3 | (1) |
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Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, undated |
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4 | (2) |
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Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12, October 1786 |
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6 | (4) |
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Catherine the Great to Prince Potemkin, c.19 March 1774 |
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10 | (2) |
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James I to the Duke of Buckingham, 17 May 1620 |
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12 | (1) |
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Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 21 January 1926 |
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13 | (2) |
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Between Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan, c. 1530s |
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15 | (4) |
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Anais Nin to Henry Miller, c.August 1932 |
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19 | (1) |
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Alexandra to Rasputin, c.1909 |
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20 | (2) |
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Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton, 29 January 1800 |
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22 | (2) |
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Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine, 24 April 1796 |
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24 | (2) |
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Alexander II to Katya Dolgorukaya, January 1868 |
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26 | (3) |
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Josef Stalin to Pelageya Onufrieva, 29 February 1912 |
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29 | (4) |
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Elizabeth I to Mary I, 16 March 1554 |
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33 | (2) |
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Vilma Grunwald to Kurt Grunwald, 11 July 1944 |
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35 | (1) |
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Kadashman-Enlil to Amenhotep III, c.1370 BC |
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36 | (2) |
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Oliver Cromwell to Valentine Walton, 4 July 1644 |
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38 | (2) |
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Toussaint L'Ouverture to Napoleon, 12 July 1802 |
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40 | (2) |
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Alexander I to his sister Catherine 20 September 1805 |
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42 | (1) |
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Charles I to Charles II, 29 November 1648 |
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43 | (2) |
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Svetlana Stalina to her father Stalin, mid 1930s |
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45 | (1) |
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Augustus to Caius Caesar, 23 September AD 2 |
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46 | (1) |
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Joseph II to his brother Leopold II, 4 October 1777 |
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47 | (1) |
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Rameses the Great to Hattusili, 1243 BC |
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48 | (5) |
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Michelangelo to Giovanni da Pistoia, 1509 |
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53 | (1) |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin Marianne, 13 November 1777 |
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54 | (3) |
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Honore de Balzac to Ewelina Hanska, 19 June 1836 |
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57 | (1) |
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Pablo Picasso to Marie-Therese Walter, 19 July 1939 |
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58 | (1) |
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John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 13 October 1819 |
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59 | (2) |
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T.S. Eliot to George Orwell, 13 July 1944 |
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61 | (6) |
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Sarah Bernhardt to Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1915 |
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67 | (1) |
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Fanny Burney to her sister Esther, 22 March 1812 |
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67 | (6) |
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David Hughes to his parents, 21 August 1940 |
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73 | (6) |
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Ada Lovelace to Andrew Crosse, c.16 November 1844 |
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79 | (2) |
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Wilbur Wright to the Smithsonian, 30 May 1899 |
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81 | (1) |
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John Stevens Henslow to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1831 |
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82 | (2) |
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Between Ferdinand and Isabella, and Christopher Columbus, 30 March 1493 and 29 April 1493 |
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84 | (9) |
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Anton Chekhov to Anatoly Koni, 16 January 1891 |
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93 | (3) |
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Gustave Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet, 15 January 1850 |
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96 | (5) |
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Peter the Great to his wife Catherine I, 27 June 1709 |
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101 | (1) |
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Napoleon to Josephine, 3 December 1805 |
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102 | (1) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower to all Allied troops, 5 June 1944 (unsent) |
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103 | (1) |
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Catherine, Duchess of Oldenburg, to her brother Alexander I, 3 September 1812 |
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103 | (1) |
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Philip II to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, 1 July 1588 |
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104 | (1) |
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Harun al-Rashid to Nikephoros I, AD 802 |
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105 | (1) |
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Rasputin to Nicholas II, 17 July 1914 |
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106 | (3) |
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Paiankh to Nodjmet, c.1070 BC |
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109 | (1) |
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Vladimir Lenin to the Bolsheviks of Penza, 11 August 1918 |
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109 | (1) |
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Stalin to Kliment Voroshilov, 3 July 1937 |
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110 | (1) |
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Mao Zedong to the Red Guards of Tsinghua University Middle School, 1 August 1966 |
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111 | (2) |
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Josip Broz Tito to Stalin, 1948 |
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113 | (4) |
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Theobald von Bethman-Hollwegg to Leopold Berchtold, 6 July 1914 |
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117 | (2) |
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Harry Truman to Irv Kupcinet, 5 August 1963 |
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119 | (4) |
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Pliny the Younger to Tacitus, c.AD 106/107 |
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123 | (5) |
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Voltaire to M. Tronchin, 24 November 1755 |
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128 | (5) |
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Captain A.D. Chater to his mother, Christmas 1914 |
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133 | (2) |
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Mark Antony to Octavian (later Augustus), c.33 BC |
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135 | (1) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, 11 September 1939 |
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136 | (1) |
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Adolf Hitler to Benito Mussolini, 21 June 1941 |
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137 | (7) |
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Between Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great |
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144 | (5) |
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Georg von Hulsen to Emil von Gortz, 1892 |
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149 | (1) |
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Marquis de Sade `to the stupid villains who torment me', 1783 |
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150 | (2) |
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Between Alexandra and Nicholas II, 14 December 1916 |
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152 | (7) |
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Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 30 July 1775 |
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159 | (1) |
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Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler, 24 December 1940 |
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160 | (3) |
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Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 13 July 1863 |
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163 | (1) |
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John Profumo to Harold Macmillan, 5 June 1963 |
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164 | (1) |
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Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev, 1 December 1963 |
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165 | (2) |
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Emile Zola to Felix Faure, 13 January 1898 |
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167 | (8) |
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Emmeline Pankhurst to the Women's Social and Political Union, 10 January 1913 |
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175 | (2) |
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Rosa Parks to Jessica Mitford, 26 February 1956 |
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177 | (1) |
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Nelson Mandela to Winnie Mandela, 2 April 1969 |
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178 | (3) |
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Abram Hannibal to Peter the Great, 5 March 1722 |
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181 | (1) |
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Between Simon Bolivar, Manuela Saenz and James Thome, 3 July 1822 |
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182 | (5) |
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Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, 28 February 1895 |
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187 | (1) |
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Between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, June 1804 |
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188 | (6) |
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Anonymous to Lord Monteagle, October 1605 |
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194 | (1) |
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Alexander Pushkin to Jacob von Heeckeren, 25 January 1837 |
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195 | (6) |
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Stalin to Valery Mezhlauk, April 1930 |
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201 | (1) |
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Churchill to Roosevelt, 20 May 1940 |
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202 | (1) |
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Between Richard I and Saladin, October---November 1191 |
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203 | (1) |
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Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, 2 November 1917 |
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204 | (1) |
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Niccolo Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, 3 August 1514 |
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205 | (2) |
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Henry VII to his `good friends', July 1485 |
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207 | (1) |
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Babur to his son Humayun, 11 January 1529 |
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208 | (1) |
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John Adams to Jefferson, 20 February 1801 |
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209 | (1) |
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Between the Duke of Marlborough, Queen Anne and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 13 August 1704 |
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210 | (1) |
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Donald J. Trump to Kim Jong Un, 24 May 2018 |
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211 | (4) |
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Abd al-Rahman III to his sons, AD 961 |
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215 | (1) |
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Simon Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, c.AD 135 |
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216 | (1) |
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Ammurapi to the king of Alashiya, c.1190 BC |
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217 | (1) |
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Aurangzeb to his son Muhammed Azam Shah, 1707 |
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217 | (2) |
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Bolivar to Juan Jose Flores, 9 November 1830 |
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219 | (4) |
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Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen, July 2016 |
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223 | (1) |
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`Henriette' to Giacomo Casanova, autumn 1749 |
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224 | (1) |
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Churchill to his wife Clementine, 1915 |
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225 | (2) |
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Franz Kafka to Max Brod, June 1924 |
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227 | (1) |
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Walter Raleigh to his wife Bess, 8 December 1603 |
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227 | (4) |
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Alan Turing to Norman Routledge, February 1952 |
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231 | (1) |
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Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, 1 April 1965 |
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232 | (2) |
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Robert Ross to More Adey, 14 December 1900 |
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234 | (3) |
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Lucrezia Borgia to Leo X, 22 June 1519 |
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237 | (1) |
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Hadrian to Antoninus Pius -- and to his soul, 10 July AD 138 |
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238 | (2) |
| Acknowledgements |
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240 | (1) |
| Copyright Acknowledgments |
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