As a child, one invariably makes handmade cards with heartwarming messages for Mother’s Day, adults usually send bouquets and post carousels or reels on Instagram, accompanied with heartfelt but brief captions. In this march of time and technology, the art of letter writing has become a relic of the past. Our most celebrated writers were–to nobody’s surprise–excellent letter writers, and of all their correspondence, their letters to their mother , are perhaps the rawest pieces of literature written in moments of uncertainty and fear and spared the fastidious editor’s pen. We bring to you the letters of eight famous writers to the one person who knew them inside out. Some of them were penned during sleepless nights, others in the war trenches. I feel almost ashamed of being so well & whole: Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was working as a volunteer nurse when he wrote to his mother.…