First collection of the letters of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, one of the leading figures in Paris' literary circle of English writers during the Interbellum. Beach, founder and proprietor of 'Shakespeare and Company' - the bohemian lending-library and bookstore - left behind a correspondence with major figures, like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Alfred Knopf among them.