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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
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Letters to Véra (Vintage International)
by Vladimir Nabokov

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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by Ted Allbeury

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No Man Dies Twice
by Michael Smith

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