Private letters, hidden away in a Long Beach attic for decades, share much with the bigger-than-life author at the time he wrote them — weathered by the years but steadfast, able to survive when all ...

What follows is an excerpt from Nina London’s book, Love on the Turquoise Sea. My ship, Explorer of the Seas, began sailing slowly away from the pier. I went to the dock to get a last look of Bermuda; ...

LONDON — In a love letter from 1745 decorated with a doodle of a heart shot through with arrows, María Clara de Aialde wrote to her husband, Sebastian, a Spanish sailor working in the colonial trade ...