Fathers to sons

The similarities and differences in the relationships between fathers and sons from the fourteenth to the twentieth century are revealed in this collection of letters from fathers to their sons. Included are letters from King Edward II, Lorenzo de Medici, John Dudley, Sire Walter Raleigh, Benjamin Franklin, Josiah Quincy, George Leopold Mozart, Benjamin Rush, Sir Timothy Shelley, Stephen Longfellow, Daniel Webster, Heinrich Marx, Robert E. Lee, Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, and many others.