A forest, a union leader, a death foretold. In two rare letters, Chico Mendes warns of threats that would soon become real. Before the world knew his name, he was already fighting — and risking everything — to defend the Amazon and its people.
In this 1948 exchange, Enzo Ferrari discusses the sale of a car with a Parisian client. The tone is practical, personal and shows how, in the early days, each car was a conversation, and every buyer helped shape what Ferrari would become.
It is exceptionally rare to hear the greatest athlete in the history of a sport speak in his own handwriting about the awakening of his passion and talent. These two letters, written in 1979 by Ayrton Senna at just nineteen, offer that unique moment.
In 1877, Alfred Niaudet introduces Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone to France. Two letters capture the awe of the first voice heard over a wire in Paris, a scientific and human breakthrough that marked the beginning of a new era in communication.
Two of France’s greatest poets, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, shared a tumultuous bond. In this brief and poignant letter from 1891, Verlaine may have been awaiting confirmation of Rimbaud’s death, a quiet moment suspended between rumor and grief, captured in the poet’s own hand.