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Letters of note : an eclectic collection of correspondence deserving of a wider audience / compiled by Shaun Usher

Published
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2014.
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xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Usher, Shaun

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Contents
One's drop scones / Queen Elizabeth II to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- From hell / Jack the Ripper to George Lusk -- Wind the clock / E.B. White to Mr. Nadeau -- I am to be executed / Mary Stuart to Henry III of France -- I hear you like tomato soup / William P. MacFarland to Andy Warhol -- Bill Hicks on freedom of speech / Bill Hicks to a priest -- Your pal, John K. / John Kricfalusi to Amir Avni -- The elephant man / Francis Carr-Gomm to The Times -- I like words / Robert Pirosh to various -- I can't fight any longer / Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf -- There is no money in answering letters / Groucho Marx to Woody Allen -- As dire as its title / Ian Main to head of Comedy and Light Entertainment, BBC -- I stand astounded and appalled / Charles Dickens to The Times -- Fifty lady sharpshooters await / Annie Oakly to U.S. President William McKinley -- To hell with Hitler / Patrick Hitler to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Thank you for the dream / Roald Dahl to Amyu Corcoran -- How I would like to work for you! / Eudora Welty to The New Yorker., 'Music is 'life it'self / Louis Armstrong to Lance Corporal Villec -- To my old master / Jourdon Anderson to Patrick Henry Anderson -- My good friend Roosvelt / Fidel Castro to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- A man has to be something ; he has to matter / Hunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan -- I beg you to take my child / various mothers to The Foundling Asylum -- Eat your vegetables! / John W. James III to U.S. President Richard Nixon -- A personal letter from Steve Martin / Steve Martin to Jerry Carlson -- Is it a disgrace to be born a Chinese? / Mary Tape to San Francisco Board of Education -- O.M.G. / John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill -- It is only adults who ever feel threatened / Ursula Nordstrom to a school librarian -- God damn it, I split it so it will stay split / Raymond Chandler to Edward Weeks -- I shall be waiting for you / Lady Shigenari to Kimura Shigenari -- My muse is not a horse / Nick Cave to MTV -- Our Frank / The Connell Family to the Ciulla Family -- I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people / Ray Bradbury to Brian Sibley -- Do / Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse -- What do you say? I can't hear you... / Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy -- The ax / Charles M. Schultz to Elizabeth Swaim -- I love my wife. My wife is dead. / 0Richard Feynman to Arline Feynman -- You are not so kind as you used to be / Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill., Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Virginia O'Hanlon to editor of the Sun -- I have just written you a long letter / Alfred D. Wintle to editor of The Times -- Sweetheart, come / Emma Hauck to Mark Hauck -- Avenge my death / Masanobu Kuno to his children -- Don't touch his hair / Three Elvis Presley fans to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- To: my widow / Robert Scott to Kathleen Scott -- Put up your dukes and write! / Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando -- You must know again my reluctance to marry / Amelia Earhart to George Putnam -- I'd like to continue to be a good soldier / Eddie Slovik to General Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The Galilean moons / Galileo Galilei to Leonardo Donato -- The birch bark letters / Gavrila Posenya to relatives -- To a top scientist / Denis Cox to a top scientist -- Deep sickness seized me / Lucy Thurston to Mary Thurston -- He's here, living and vivid and unforgettable forever / Stewart Stern to the Winslows -- I miss my biggest heart / Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert -- Your end is approaching / unknown to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- A most important discovery / Francis Crick to Michael Crick -- The skills of Leonardo da Vinci / Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza -- I am in a state of shock / Flannery O'Connor to a professor of English -- Federal agent at large / Elvis Presley to U.S. President Nixon., Do not grieve for me / Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky -- 17 million negroes cannot wait for the hearts of men to change / Jackie Robinson to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 11 alive.. need small boat... Kennedy / John F. Kennedy to Allied Forces -- Where did that fall / Spike Milligan to Stephen Gard -- In event of moon disaster / William Safire to H.R. Halderman -- The most beautiful death / Laura Huxley to Julian and Juliette Huxley -- Regarding your dam complaint / Stephen L. Tvedten to David L. Price -- Why explore space? / Dr. ernst Stuhlinger to Sister Mary Jucunda -- I am very real / Kurt Vonnegut to Charles McCarthy -- An idiot of the 33rd degree / Mark Twain to J.H. Todd -- Hang on, my love, and grow big and strong / Iggy Pop to Laurence -- I wrote a book called The Godfather / Mario Puzo to Marlon Brando -- The result would be a catastrophe / Roger Boisjoly to R.K. Lund -- All the ladies like whiskers / Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln -- I felt the risk of being overwhelmed / James Cameron to Leslie Barany -- How could you go ahead of me? / a widow to Eung-Tae Lee -- I am the servant of the king / Ayyab to Amenhotep IV -- I shall always be near you / Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou -- I'm still someplace / Uncle Lynn to Peggy, Dorothy, Chuck, and Dick Jones -- The birth of bonfire night / Unknown to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle., It's up to you now / Bette Davis to B. D. Hyman -- Forget your personal tragedy / Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- I was meant to be a composer / Samuel Barber to Marguerite Barber -- Permission to land / Buang-Ly to USS Midway -- Say yes I need a job / Tim Schafer to David Fox -- We no longer have any right to remain silent / 36 Amercan writers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Kipling's hints on schoolboy etiquette / Rudyard Kipling to editors of the Horsmonden School Budget -- Sex does not thrive on montonony / Anaïs Nin to The Collector -- Dear "Dr." Fields / Bill Baxley to Edward R. Fields -- The Heiligenstadt testament / Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers -- Pay it forward / Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Webb -- Eddie's house / Jim Berger to Frank Lloyd Wright -- I was ready to sink into the earth with shame / form letter -- Sorrow passes and we remain / Henry James to Grace Norton -- It will prove invincible / Philip K. Dick to Jeff Walker -- Thank you Bob / Frederic Flom to Bob Hope -- New rubbish dialogue / Alex Guinness to Anne Kaufman -- I refuse to be cheated out of my deathbed scene / Rebecca West to H. G. Wells -- Obscene and sacrilegious / Lord Bernard Delfont to Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings -- Wretched Woman! / Jermain Loguen to Sarah Logue., This is no drill / CINCPAC to all ships -- Dear 8 year-old Teresa / Wil Wheaton to Teresa Jusino -- What a dandy car you make / Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford -- Love, Dad / Ronald Reagan to Michael Reagan -- We are sinking fast / Titanic to SS Birma -- An incredible coincidence / Robert T. Lincoln to Richard W. Gilder -- Pixar films don't get finished / Pete Docter to Adam -- May we all get better together / Charles Bukowski to Hans van den Broek -- We all feel like that now and then / Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke -- It was hard to give five sons to the Navy / Alleta Sullivan to U.S. Navy -- Nothing good gets away / John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck -- the great fire of London / James Hicks to his fellow postmasters -- It is like confessing a murder / Charles Darwin to Joseph D. Hooker -- Hardly one. Hardly one / Arthur C. Fifield to Gertrude Stein -- John Lennon signed my album / Mark Chapman to a memorabilia expert -- Things to worry about / F. Scott Fitzgerald to Scottie -- My wick hath a thief in it / Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton -- Vote for me and I will help you out / John Beaulieu to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Do scientists pray? / Albert Einstein to Phyllis -- For the sake of humanity / Mohandas Gandhi to Adolf Hitler., and I have not shot her yet / Dorothy Parker to Seward Collins -- Letter to a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus -- What great births you have witnessed! / Mark Twain to Walt Whitman -- Einstein's one great mistake / Albert Einstein to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Come quick to me / Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Art is useless because.. / Oscar Wilde to Bernulf Clegg -- I leave it in your capable hands / Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol -- Slaghterhouse-five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to Kurt Vonnegut.
Summary
"This collection of 125 letters offers a never-before-seen glimpse of the events and people of history--the brightest and the best, the most notorious, and the endearingly everyday. Letters are not ordered chronologically or thematically, but are artfully arranged for a discovery-rich reading experience. Each entry includes a transcript of the letter; a short contextual introduction; and, in 100 cases, a facsimile of the letter itself"--
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ISBN
9781452134253 (hardback)
1452134251 (hardback)
Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd in conjunction with Unbound"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
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