MILAN – On the occasion of the social campaign “Dear, I write to you” , which aims to revalue the good old habit of writing paper letters, we have collected the most famous letters written by great authors, artists and personalities. Love letters, correspondences between intellectuals and great artists, dissertations by famous writers on topical issues: in this article, we present the 10 most popular letters read by our readers. Virginia Woolf’s farewell letter to
Di lei’s husband On March 28, 1941, the English writer Virginia Woolf, during the last of her frequent depressive crises, filled her pockets with stones and let herself be drowned in the River Ouse, not far from home . I leave a touching letter to her husband Leonard Woolf. (READ THE FULL LETTER ) Frida Kahlo’s love letter to Diego Rivera
A letter never sent, but still a letter. The Mexican author is devoured by love and can only confess all her love for her, but also her loneliness in a letter. The recipient is the painter Diego Rivera. The two will marry and betray, only to return together until the author’s death in 1954. ( READ THE FULL LETTER ) Oriana Fallaci’s letter to Pier Paolo Pasolini
This very long letter from Oriana Fallaci is a great testimony that helps us to get to know the great Italian writer better. It was ideally addressed to the poet after his death and within it Fallaci recalls words, thoughts and emotions that the poet had left her through some letters. A precious document that gives us a real portrait of the author. ( READ THE FULL LETTER ) The letter from Tiziano Terzani to Oriana Fallaci
It was 2001 when, after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci proposed her harsh point of view on the tragic events of the Twin Towers through newspaper articles and books. To the strong invective against Islam, Tiziano Terzani replied with a letter entitled ” The sultan and St. Francis “. ( READ FULL LETTER ) John Lennon’s love letter to Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono and John Lennon first met when John Lennon previewed an Ono performance at the Indica Gallery in London on November 9th 1966. They started dating 2 years later. This letter is a precious testimony of their love story. ( READ THE FULL LETTER) Italo Calvino’s love letter to Elsa De Giorgi
In September 1990, the weekly Epoca published excerpts of the letters sent by Italo Calvino to Elsa De Giorgi. It is an extraordinary correspondence that shows a side of Calvin that not everyone knows. ( READ FULL LETTER ) John Keats ‘ love letter to Fanny Brawne
The engagement between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawn remained unknown until 1878, when the first letters were published. Their union, which lasted from December 1818 until Keats’s death in February 1821, coincided, among other things, with the poet’s most artistically prolific years. Keats immediately falls in love with Fanny, but does not marry her, due to her limited financial conditions and her precarious health. The posthumous publication of their correspondence will shock Victorian society. ( READ FULL LETTER ) Abraham Lincoln ‘s letter to his son’s teacher
This is a famous letter Lincoln sent to his son’s teacher on the first day of school. From the letter emerges the importance given to the figure of the teacher and to training, where the school is a fundamental guide for an individual. ( READ THE FULL LETTER ) Franz Kafka’s love letter to Milena Jesenska
In Kafka the narrative style and the epistolary style are almost perfectly superimposed and obey identical movements of thought. His first letters date back to April 10, 1920, when the writer moved to the Ottoburg pension in Merano. Milena’s character emerges overwhelmingly from her letters: Kafka moves on to give her the tu, then again the lei, then use the tu again. A continuous emotional change that drags everything with it. A correspondence made up of anguish, of broken fragments of speeches and of an idealized love that will never be realized. ( READ THE FULL LETTER ) Albert Camus’s letter to his teacher
Albert Camus wrote this letter of thanks to his primary school teacher, Mr. Louis Germain, shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. An important gesture that of the French writer. A gesture that demonstrates how primary school teachers can have a great importance for the training and education of individuals. ( READ THE FULL LETTER )
