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Love Letters of Great Men ~~* Vol. 1 John C. Kirkland Love Letters of Great Men Volume One Copyright © 2008 John C. Kirkland All rights reserved www.llogm.com This book, or any part thereof not in the public domain, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system now known or hereafter devised, except in accordance with legally permissible fair use, without permission in writing from the copyright holder. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data available upon request Love letters of great men, volume 1 / compilation and commentary by John C. Kirkland 1. Love-letters. I. Title. Love letters of great men, volume 1. II. Kirkland, John C. First edition Published in the United States of America For her Table of Contents List of Illustrations 3 Foreword The Poet Warrior 5 First Century Ovid 9 Pliny the Younger 12 Sixteenth Century Henry VIII 14 Henry the Great 17 Seventeenth Century Sir Walter Raleigh 20 Oliver Cromwell 24 Eighteenth Century Voltaire 27 George Washington 29 Goethe 31 Robert Burns 33 Mozart 35 Napoléon 38 Early Nineteenth Century Beethoven 41 Lord Byron 45 Keats 48 Victor Hugo 51 Franz Liszt 54 Nathaniel Hawthorne 56 Shelley 59 Robert Browning 61 Gustave Flaubert 63 Edgar Allen Poe 65 Late Nineteenth Century Leo Tolstoy 68 Balzac 70 Robert Schumann 72 Maj. Sullivan Ballou 75 Mark Twain 78 Van Gogh 80 Lewis Carroll 85 Pierre Curie 88 George Bernard Shaw 90 Twentieth Century Jack London 93 Admiral Peary 96 Kafka 98 Woodrow Wilson 100 Afterword What’s Past is Prologue 129 Index 131 1 List of Illustrations St. George and the Dragon (1890) 4 Ovid, from the Book of Chronicles (1493) 9 King Henry VIII, portrait (1540) 16 Sir Walter Raleigh, portrait (1585) 23 Dictionnaire philosophique by Voltaire (1764) 31 Goethe, portrait (1788) 36 Mozart, family portrait (1764) 41 Napoléon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass (1805) 45 Beethoven, portrait (1803) 49 Lord Byron, portrait (1809) 54 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862) 62 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860) 68 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1831) 73 Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1919) 81 Robert and Clara Schumann, portrait (1847) 88 The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889) 98 Photographic plate by Lewis Carroll (1873) 104 Pierre and Marie Curie, photograph (1905) 108 Jack London, photograph (1914) 114 Admiral Peary, photograph (1910) 118 War Message by Woodrow Wilson (1917) 12 Connla and the Fairy Maiden (1909) 128 1 St. George and the Dragon by Gustave Moreau (1890) 1

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Overview: Loves Letters written to their beloveds by Great Men, Vol. 1...Writers like Voltaire, Beethoven, John Keats, Lewis Carrol, Tolstoy, etc. It peaked my interest when I saw Big whisper to Carrie in Sex and the City, the Movie, "ever thine, ever mine, ever ours..." I had to know who wrote this
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