He encourages rituals and invokes magic in every child's life: letter writing, stocking filling, decorations, parades, milk and cookies.
Half of the proceeds from the sale of the "secret of life" letter will go to benefit the Salk Institute in California, where Francis Crick studied consciousness later in his career.
Tight-knit circles of friends, kompany in Russian, discussed love, life, letters and more.
The documents of Mozart's life — letters, memoirs of friends, portraits, bureaucratic files — have long been scrutinized at a microscopic level.
Since Beethoven's death in 1827, musicians and academics have pored over his life, letters and documents with a fine-tooth comb; even his hair was the subject of an entire book.
He published the pioneering Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848), secured a pension for Tennyson, made the American sage Ralph Waldo Emerson known in England, and was an early champion of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
When she returned to her house, alive and ordinary, she got rid of any evidence of Martin's presence in her life — letters, tidbits, all of it, trash in a landfill somewhere now.
He directed and helped write the revue "It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues," and he created "Love, Janis" from the life, letters and rock 'n' roll of Janis Joplin.
In the 1970s, he used to exhibit the "documents" of his own life, letters, scraps, locks of hair, photographs of himself as a child (which were probably nothing of the sort).
On a Facebook page dedicated to Farrenkopf's story, among the posts with information about the investigation, a woman who identifies herself as Farrenkopf's niece gives us bits of her aunt's life — letters from old co-workers, details about her extended family, a black-and-white high-school photograph.
The life, letters, and labours of Francis Galton.
