Dylan with Johnny Cash Backstage, NJ, 1965

Richard Steele to his second wife Mary Scurlock in the weeks preceding their wedding (c. August 1707)

Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon (5th November 1917)

Simone de Beauvoir to her husband Nelson Algren (18th May 1947)

Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth (c. 1943)

Nathaniel Hawthorne to his wife Sophia Peabody

Ludwig van Beethoven, in a letter to his ‘Immortal Beloved’

Honoré de Balzac to Countess Ewelina Hańska (c. June 1835)

Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose The Time War

Lord Byron to Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (25th August 1819)

Zelda Fitzgerald to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald (c. 1920)

Johnny Cash, in a letter to his wife June

Henry VIII of England to his then-mistress and later second wife Anne Boleyn; contemporary spelling and interpretation by me

Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry (19th May 1917)

Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas (20th May 1895)

One of Frida Kahlo’s letters to Diego Rivera; first published in The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Alex Turner to Alexa Chung (c. 2007)

John Keats to Fanny Brawne (c. 1820)

Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, Véra; from Letters to Véra (c. 1924)

Lemony Snicket, Letters to Beatrice; ‘A Love Letter to End All Love Letters’

Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (21st January 1926)

Laurence Sterne to Catherine Fourmantel (8th Mary 1760)

Charlie Parker to his common-law wife Chan Woods

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. 1927)

The Cramps in East LA