Book
Letters of note : an eclectic collection of correspondence deserving of a wider audience
Record details
- ISBN: 1452134251 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781452134253 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781452166322
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Physical Description:
xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
print - Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd in conjunction with Unbound"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. 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. 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 / AnaisÌ 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. 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. 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. '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. / Richard Feynman to Arline Feynman -- You are not so kind as you used to be / Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill. 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 808.86 L651o 2014 (Text) | 33126025303136 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2014 June #1
Based on the blog of the same name, this collection of letters is so handsome that it looks like a coffee-table book, but it's more than that. In it, Queen Elizabeth II sends a note to President Dwight Eisenhower reflecting on Mamie and Ike's visit to Balmoral Castle: she appends her recipe for scones. The chairman of the Whitehall Vigilance Committee receives a package with a note from Jack the Ripper accompanied by half a human kidney, pickled in wine: "I fried and ate it was very nise." Gandhi appeals to Hitler as the only one who can avert the impending war. Bank robber Clyde Barrow tells Henry Ford he only drives Fords. Francis Crick alerts his son about DNA. A wife writes to her samurai husband on the eve of battle (he died in the fighting, she committed suicide) and an ex-slave addresses his former master. This treasure trove of fascinating material includes more than 125 letters from both the famous and the unknown dating as far back as 1340 BCE, many reproduced in facsimile. VERDICT A beautiful collection that should appeal to everyone. Start reading it and you're lost.âDavid Keymer, Modesto, CA
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