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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

01 SORROW MUST BE SORROW

George Eliot to Lady Lytton

02 GRIEF IS NON-NEGOTIABLE

Nick Cave to Cynthia

03 A GREAT DESERT LIES AHEAD OF ME

Edith Wharton to John Hugh Smith

04 I HAVE FELT THIS LOSS WITH ALL MY HEART

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Anna Margaretha Textor

05 YOUR TRUE SELF HAS NO LIFE, NO DEATH

Sheldon and Seungsahn Haengwon

06 IT’S SO CURIOUS

Colette to Marguerite Moreno

07 A MAN IS NOT COMPLETELY BORN UNTIL HE BE DEAD

Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbart

08 WHAT A WORLD

Ken Kesey to his friends

09 I LOVED HER SO MUCH

Audre Lorde to Martha Dunham

10 MAKE IT YOUR AMBITION TO TAKE HEART

Rainer Maria Rilke to Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín

11 I WILL BE THERE IN THE TREES

Kathleen Keyes to the Irish Times 46

12 YOU MUST LET ME CRY MY CRY FOR HIM

Robert Frost to Helen Thomas

13 HOW COULD YOU GO AHEAD OF ME?

A widow to Eung-Tae Lee

14 IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ME

An unknown soldier believed to have been Basil Rathbone to Edgar Rathbone

15 THE MISTS OF GRIEF

Helen Keller to Takeo and Keo Iwahashi

16 WHAT IS IT THAT YOU MOURN IN A FRIEND’S DEATH?

Marsilio Ficino to Bernardo Bembo

17 THE HEAVY HAND OF DEATH

Kahlil Gibran to Mary Haskell

18 HOW ARE YOU FEELING?

Jessica Mitford to Eva and Bill Maas

19 NO ONE YOU LOVE IS EVER DEAD

Ernest Hemingway to Gerald and Sara Murphy

20 LET ME BEG OF YOU NOT TO INDULGE IN USELESS GRIEF

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute

21 THE EVERLASTING NEST

‘Abdu’l-Bahá to bereaved parents

22 HOW IT SEIZES UPON ONE

Virginia Woolf to Dora Carrington

23 YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATRED

Antoine Leiris to his wife’s killers

24 FOR SHE WAS MORTAL BORN

Servius Sulpicius Rufus and Marcus Tullius Cicero

25 LIKE A TREE IN FULL BEARING STRUCK AT THE ROOT

Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams

26 THE SPRINGTIME SUN BRINGS FORTH NEW LIFE

Albert Einstein to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium

27 WE FEEL DOUBLY BEREFT

Ethel Bedsow to Jacqueline Kennedy

28 THE BUSINESS OF LIFE SUMMONS US AWAY FROM USELESS GRIEF

Samuel Johnson to James Elphinston

29 SORROW COMES TO ALL

Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough

30 THE GREAT WALL

Thomas Wolfe and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Maxwell E. Perkins

31 NOW HER SOUL IS FREE

Ram Dass to Steve and Anita Isser

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