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The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories & Lost Loves Found Inside Second-Hand Books · Compiled by W. B. Gooderham
"... Obedient, we admire / Galleries of dead poets, great and small..."
Thomas Hutchinson (Editor)
18 March, 2024
""Dear Dad, I was stone mad about you as a girl...""
Oscar Wilde
3 August, 2023
"How I live henceforth makes no difference to Darline - it makes a difference to me..."
Richard Holmes
26 July, 2023
"This book was given to me by my very dear old friend and comrade Mrs Brackenridge who passed over Jan 4th 1919..."
Charles Méryon
6 June, 2023
"Goodbye, Daniel Boone, Goodbye Sherlock Holmes..."
William Faulkner
1 June, 2023
"I loved you to the end..."
Anonymous? (Or Clare Harner? Or Mary Elizabeth Fry?)
1 May, 2023
"This book was read by dear Nina to our dearest mother, a few days before she died, and all the hymns from page 480 to the end were, at intervals, read to her by me, within the last 24 hours of her life..."
The Countess of Northesk
7 February, 2023
"I hope you are well. I hope I haven't offended you in any way..."
Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania
16 January, 2023
"Never let the buggers get you down..."
W.B. Gooderham
24 December, 2022
"Be inspired, my darling..."
Greta Thunberg
26 November, 2022
""What times are ahead of us? Who knows?""
Phyllis Bottome
17 August, 2022
"I felt so keen a longing for Mm. de Guermantes that I could scarcely breathe..."
René Descartes
1 April, 2022
"FOR FUSSY - The most impracticable cat I have EVER met...."
T.S. Eliot
12 August, 2021
"...I have changed my mind..."
F. Spencer Chapman, DSO
11 March, 2020
"Chris Mullin in dubious company as Booker Prize Committee member..."
Chris Mullin
22 November, 2019
"I had learnt from my father that romanticism is a crippling affliction..."
Al Alvarez
8 September, 2019