The letter was postmarked again on April 12 in London. The stationery boasts the logo of the White Star Line, the company that owned the Titanic. Next to the logo, there were the words ...

There is a scene in the Jane Austen novel "Pride And Prejudice" where the main character, Lizzy Bennet, receives a letter from her will they, won't they, hate you, love you, sexy crush man Mr. Darcy.

The letters here, from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, show that an artist might put pen to paper just as he or she would apply a line to a drawing. For each artist, a leading authority ...