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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

I have seen the future; and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919.

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Steffens, Lincoln. The Letters of Lincoln Steffens. Vol. 1, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Originally a letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919.

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to the Bishop of Rochester. 23 Sept. 1720.

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Pope, Alexander. "To Atterbury, Sept. 23, 1720." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 61.

As your ambassador can see for himself we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures.

Qianlong Emperor

Writing to George III after the first British trade mission had reached Beijing.

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Qianlong. Letter to George III. 1783.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 12 Aug. 1904.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Hoover, Herbert. Letter to Senator W. H. Borah. 23 Feb. 1928.

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James, Henry. Letter to Grace Norton. 3 Nov. 1884.

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James, Henry. "November 3 [1883] To Grace Norton." The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883–1884, edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Vol. 2, University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Chapman, John Jay. Letter to Elizabeth Chanler. 26 Mar. 1898.

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 24 Apr. 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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James, William. Letter to W. Lutoslawski. 6 May 1906.

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Ruskin, John. "Letter the Sixty-Ninth." Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney/Kent: George Allen, 1 Sept. 1876.

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Ruskin, John. Fors Clavigera IV-VI. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 28, Cambridge University Press, 2010, letter 67.

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James, William. Letter to H. G. Wells. 11 Sept. 1906.

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Junius. Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8 Aug. 1769.

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Balfour, Arthur James. Letter to Lord Rothschild. 2 Nov. 1917.

I will write until my knuckles are worn and my brain bewildered, but I will write on and on.

William Styron

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Styron, William. Letter to William C. Styron Sr. 1 June 1951.

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Lord Salisbury. Letter to Lord Lytton. 15 June 1877.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letter to Marcus Terentius Varro. c. 46 BC.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letters to Friends, edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Annie Moffett Webster. 1 Sept. 1876.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Norvell. 11 June 1807.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, June 11, 1807." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library Classics, 1998.