[Reviews] Other people’s mail Adjust Share The letters of famous people are most interesting if you read between the lines By Joseph Epstein, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli Beth Darlington Book reviews Books Cecil Y. Lang Celebrities Charles Neider Correspondence Edgar Finley Shannon Edmund Wilson Elena Wilson Friedrich Engels Fritz Joachim Raddatz Harry S. Truman Heinrich von Kleist Igor Stravinsky Karl Marx Letters Mark Twain Mary Wordsworth Monte M. Poen Philip B. Miller Reviews Robert Craft William Wordsworth More from Joseph Epstein The decline of gossip The rise of the verbal class Adjust Share Close < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > November 1982 < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > Table of Contents Close