"A Treasury of the World's Great Letters: From Ancient Days to Our Own Time Containing the characteristic and crucial communications, and intimate exchanges and cycles of correspondence, of many of the outstanding figures of world history, and some notable contemporaries", selected, edited, and integrated with biographical backgrounds and historical settings and consequences by Max Lincoln Schuster, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940. First Edition.

Hard boards, original red cloth, black box with gilt lettering on front board and spine [slightly faded spine]; 6.1/4" x 9.1/2"; orange endpapers, xlviii + 563 pages with several illustrations, Introduction, Contents and Index; very good condition.

"If you love biographies, you will enjoy these personal letters from famous people. There are letters from St. Paul, Nero's Mother, and Aurelian, Emperor of Rome, from ancient time period. Then are many from the 1400 to 1600s from Christopher Columbus, Michelangelo, Sir Walter Raleigh, and many others. There are some from past presidents, such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and there are some from famous poets, like Keats, and Lord Byron. Very interesting perspectives from all different time periods are given in this book."

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