Subject & Research Guides: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources: Letters and Diaries

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Dear Kamala: Women Write to the New Vice President
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Frederick Douglass Papers
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
Letters of the Century: America, 1900-1999
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
A People's History of the U. S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein