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LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU THINKAbraham Lincoln Refuses to Lend His Stepbrother Eighty Dollars 2

Emily Dickinson Finds Ecstasy in the Mere Sense of Living 7

Mark Twain Refuses to Sanction a Dramatization of Tom Sawyer 11

Lord Chesterfield Lays down Some Precepts for His Natural Son 15

Henri Poincare and Marie Curie Recommend Albert Einstein for a Professorship at Zurich Institute 19

LETTERS ABOUT LOVE AND CAREWilliam James Discovers that He has Omitted the Deepest Principle of Human Nature from His Textbook on Psychology 27

Pierre Curie Asks Marie Sklodovska,a Former Govemess and a Student of Physics,to Be His Wife 31

Sarah Bernhardt Tells Victorien Sardou Why Paris Is a Vast Desert of Desolation without Him 35

Napoleon Learns from Josephine that She has Recovered Her Heart 39

Benjamin Disraeli Offers to Free Thomas Carlyle from Common Cares in the Sunset of His Life 43

LETTERS ABOUT SADNESSBenjamin Franklin Consoles a Relative on the Death of His Brother 51

Ludwig van Beethoven Prepares to Meet His Fate 57

Dostoevsky Describes His Sensations when He Had but One Minute to Live 64

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Receives an Involuntary Confession from His Benefactress 69

Charles Dickens Tells His Wife that Their Infant Daughter has Died 75

LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BETTERBenjamin Franklin Hurls His Defiance at an Old Comrade 83

Blaise Pascal Asks a Colleague to Confirm a Scientific Prediction 87

Lenin Warns the Communist Party that Stalin Is Concentrating Too Much Power in His Own Hands 91

Du Barry Makes a Business Proposition to an Admirer 97

Christopher Columbus Reports His First Impressions of America 101