Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

A former teaching assistant recently wrote to the New York Times about his experience with grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

He reportedly wrote to a friend that the music he was writing was far worsethan the music for his earlier ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty."

VOA: special.2010.12.22

He wrote to his friend,botanist Joseph Hooker, that speaking about evolution "was like confessing a murder."

VOA: special.2009.02.25

A Polish farmer wrote to such an organization in Warsaw: "I want to go to America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

One of the people she wrote to was Eleanor Roosevelt,the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Other people wrote to say that Wilma Mankiller's story made them feel brave and hopeful.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

A man named Fred Dewey wrote to friends back home that it took him two weeks just to move his supplies from Skagway to the mountain.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Lavinia wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson and demanded that the poems be published.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

In nineteen-oh-nine, she wrote to Helen Taft, the wife of then-President Howard Taft.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

Emily Dickinson wrote to him when she was in her early thirties.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

She wrote to one of her friends about her dream of one day owning a house with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

She wrote to friends in Boston about her experiences teaching Helen.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She wrote to congressmen, local leaders, teachers and newspaper publishers.

VOA: special.2009.05.04