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Excerpt of Letter from Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman, August 15, 1909

Goldman's letters to her lover Ben Reitman were often vivid and passionate from August 15, 1909. As this excerpt demonstrates, they also often betrayed Goldman's feelings of insecurity and doubt about her relationship with Reitman.

Courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Excerpt of Letter from Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman, August 15, 1909." (Viewed on December 9, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/excerpt-from-letter-from-goldman-to-ben-reitman>.