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Intimate Letters| Subtitle of Leoš Janáček's second string quartet, composed in 1928 and inspired by his unrequited love for Kamilla Stoesslová, 38 years his junior, to whom he wrote almost daily letters during the last ten years of his life. It was first performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), on 11 September 1928, one month after Janáček's death. |
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| The first, "Love Notes and Letters", was a collection of her most intimate letters to her lover, Antoine de Villedieu, and the second, "The Letter Case", was an epistolary novel constructed as a set of ten letters from the Marquis de Naumanoir to a nobleman in the provinces, which lightheartedly discuss the romantic misadventures of various Parisian socialites. 2 Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok Edited by Rodger Streitmatter (Free Press, $25) Drawing from Whitman's poetry, private journals, and intimate letters, renowned scholar and critic Gary Schmidgall explores Whitman as artist, lover, and friend," boasts the publisher of this exhaustive investigation of the poet's life, which includes his long-term relationship with "loving comrade" Peter Doyle. |