A Book of Condolences: Classic Letters of Bereavement

The tender subject of the loss of a loved one is portrayed in this selection of letters of sympathy exchanged between historically famous men and women and their family and friends. Rachel Harding and Mary Dyson have assembled the personal letters and their replies of such figures as Cicero, Coleridge, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Jessica Mitford, and more than 50 others.