Cynthia Grow
Love Letters
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Collection of love letters written by historical figures and famous lovers throughout the ages. See text for more about the work.
Acrylic and graphite on vintage book and paper, 23 x 31 cm.

Simone de Beauvoir to Jean-Paul Sartre, Wednesday [27 July 1938]

Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet, Croisset, Friday 10 p.m. 18 September 1846

Marcel Proust to Antoine Bibesco, [1904]

Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller, 9 March 1932

Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry, Saturday night, 18 May, 1917

Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 p.m. Saturday, [postmark 12 September 1846]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sunday [postmark 14 September 1846]

Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, Courtfield Gardens, 20 May 1895

John Keats to Fanny Brawne, [Monday 11 October 1819]

Lord Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, Sy even, April 1812

Walter Bagehot to Elizabeth Wilson, Herd's Hill, 22 November 1857

Jane Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1815