Collate’s collection of letters by literary giants

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters from Rainer Maria Rilke to a young man seeking advice on a literary career. Historic, beautiful, and still useful for aspiring writers today.

Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Letters to Satre by Simone de Beauvoir

Letters to Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell: A Life in Letters

Cicero: Selected Letters

A particular highlight is a letter to close friend, Atticus, in which Cicero describes having Julius Ceaser over for dinner at the height of his power. Quite the inconvenience Cicero complains it to have been!

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

The letters of the Younger Pliny

Letters of Note

I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

Faber & Faber: the untold story

A recounting of the story, through letters, of the great publishing house. In it find tails of turning down classics such as Ulysses as well as a couple of Orwell works.

Mozart: Letters

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Letters shared between

Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.