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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World
Intelligence Squared
The Letters Are Coming Back to Fashion
The letters are a secret thing as well as a public thing and that's one of the joys of letters. One of the bizarre things about these letters is some of these letters were written to be published. It would have been unthinkable that these letters would, like the letter we heard from Marianne Twenette, the Empress of Austria to the Queen of France. And of course there are lots of erotic letters in the book that no one was meant to see and yet they were kept.
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