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Jean-Paul Sartre, Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir: 1926–1939, ed. Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee (New York: Scribner's, 1992), and Jean-Paul Sartre, Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir: 1940–1963, ed. Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee (New York: Scribner's, 1993). His letters to Wanda Kosakiewicz were published in Les Temps Modernes in 1990. See also, Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare (New York: Arcade Pub., 1992), Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren, comp. and trans. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (New York: The New Press, 1998), and Simone de Beauvoir, Correspondance croisée: Simone de Beauvoir et Jacques-Lauren Bost 1937–1940, ed. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Paris: Gallimard, 2004).