Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-160).

How should I address you in my love letters? -- So sweet and still, and thee -- Every night when I go to bed -- I'm biding my time in Brooklyn -- Dear heart-my own -- Your letters arrive slowly -- I keep thinking about what you said -- If I were to die -- I just came home, sat down -- Stoned. Alone in Circle House -- I feel so much for you -- Djuna love-I wrote you a letter -- It is already wet there -- Happy Birthday beautiful -- I am obsessed with you -- In response to your delightful request -- I am a savage, Emma, a wild, wild savage -- Are you really my querida? -- As you sleep -- You wonder why I did not tel you -- I awoke with the taste of your mouth -- Read your letter and was very glad to hear -- I love you, I said those words to you -- Dearest, Panther would cast many spells -- I will continue on the path like a true warrior -- I haven't stopped loving you -- One day not too long ago I fell in love with a woman.

I sat behind you tonight -- It's Saturday & it's cold & it's windy outside -- I held your hand all morning -- I'm really glad you responded to my e-mail -- To me, this it not only important -- No letter from you today -- It's late in the night. I'm tired, yet I can't go to sleep -- I am wearing red. My mouth dives -- Hey, I know we could be all in each other's boundaries -- What if I had not touched the napkin to my lips -- I thought of you 1 million x last night -- What shall i do when the postman fails to bring me a letter? -- Are you OK? I keep wondering -- Hi, it's me again. I came across this old letter -- 2:00 P.M. I feel voiceless and very quiet -- How I miss you. Did I ever tell you -- My love, my love, I love my love -- Isn't it overwhelming to think -- My dearest wife Gloria -- I can't give you anything but sex baby -- I am getting sleepy -- I have to go into the city -- I'm in a limo driving to sound check -- Well it's been a little time since this pen hit the paper -- You are still near me -- Was so good to talk to you yesterday -- Wait until the 23rd -- When I came from school today -- Through my baptismal catholicism -- Oh BJ-very, very long sigh! -- I'm returning the jewelry -- Look here Vita-throw over your man.

Among lesbians, the letter has served as a crucial mode of expression -- for centuries it was the sole recourse for documenting a unique and transgressive love. For any lover, letter writing is an act of urgency; for the lesbian lover, it has often been an act of necessity. Collected here for the first time is a sampling of poignantly revealing and often breathlessly passionate love letters between women, written over the past 140 years, including intimate musings by such famous writers as Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, and tatiana de la tierra. Illustrated with more than sixty full-color collages, "Between Us" is a landmark work, shedidng light on lesbian love with candor, humor, and grace. -- From publisher's description.