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Letters of note : an eclectic collection of correspondence deserving of a wider audience
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- ISBN: 1452134251 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781452134253 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781452166322
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xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
print - Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2014.
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| 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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| 245 | 0 | 0. | ‡aLetters of note : ‡ban eclectic collection of correspondence deserving of a wider audience / ‡ccompiled by Shaun Usher. |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aSan Francisco : ‡bChronicle Books, ‡c2014. | |
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| 500 | . | ‡a"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd in conjunction with Unbound"--Title page verso. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aIncludes index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡a"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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher. | |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tOne's drop scones / ‡rQueen Elizabeth II to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- ‡tFrom hell / ‡rJack the Ripper to George Lusk -- ‡tWind the clock / ‡rE.B. White to Mr. Nadeau -- ‡tI am to be executed / ‡rMary Stuart to Henry III of France -- ‡tI hear you like tomato soup / ‡rWilliam P. MacFarland to Andy Warhol -- ‡tBill Hicks on freedom of speech / ‡rBill Hicks to a priest -- ‡tYour pal, John K. / ‡rJohn Kricfalusi to Amir Avni -- ‡tThe elephant man / ‡rFrancis Carr-Gomm to The Times -- ‡tI like words / ‡rRobert Pirosh to various -- ‡tI can't fight any longer / ‡rVirginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf -- ‡tThere is no money in answering letters / ‡rGroucho Marx to Woody Allen -- ‡tAs dire as its title / ‡rIan Main to head of Comedy and Light Entertainment, BBC -- ‡tI stand astounded and appalled / ‡rCharles Dickens to The Times -- ‡tFifty lady sharpshooters await / ‡rAnnie Oakly to U.S. President William McKinley -- ‡tTo hell with Hitler / ‡rPatrick Hitler to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- ‡tThank you for the dream / ‡rRoald Dahl to Amyu Corcoran -- ‡tHow I would like to work for you! / ‡rEudora Welty to The New Yorker. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡t'Music is 'life it'self / ‡rLouis Armstrong to Lance Corporal Villec -- ‡tTo my old master / ‡rJourdon Anderson to Patrick Henry Anderson -- ‡tMy good friend Roosvelt / ‡rFidel Castro to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- ‡tA man has to be something ; he has to matter / ‡rHunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan -- ‡tI beg you to take my child / ‡rvarious mothers to ‡tThe Foundling Asylum -- ‡tEat your vegetables! / John W. James III to U.S. President Richard Nixon -- ‡tA personal letter from Steve Martin / ‡rSteve Martin to Jerry Carlson -- ‡tIs it a disgrace to be born a Chinese? / ‡rMary Tape to San Francisco Board of Education -- ‡tO.M.G. / ‡rJohn Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill -- ‡tIt is only adults who ever feel threatened / ‡rUrsula Nordstrom to a school librarian -- ‡tGod damn it, I split it so it will stay split / ‡rRaymond Chandler to Edward Weeks -- ‡tI shall be waiting for you / ‡rLady Shigenari to Kimura Shigenari -- ‡tMy muse is not a horse / ‡rNick Cave to MTV -- ‡tOur Frank / ‡rThe Connell Family to the Ciulla Family -- ‡tI am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people / ‡rRay Bradbury to Brian Sibley -- ‡tDo / ‡rSol LeWitt to Eva Hesse -- ‡tWhat do you say? I can't hear you... / ‡rKatharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy -- ‡tThe ax / ‡rCharles M. Schultz to Elizabeth Swaim -- ‡tI love my wife. My wife is dead. / ‡rRichard Feynman to Arline Feynman -- ‡tYou are not so kind as you used to be / ‡rClementine Churchill to Winston Churchill. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / ‡rVirginia O'Hanlon to editor of the Sun -- ‡tI have just written you a long letter / ‡rAlfred D. Wintle to editor of The Times -- ‡tSweetheart, come / ‡rEmma Hauck to Mark Hauck -- ‡tAvenge my death / ‡rMasanobu Kuno to his children -- ‡tDon't touch his hair / ‡rThree Elvis Presley fans to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- ‡tTo: my widow / ‡rRobert Scott to Kathleen Scott -- ‡tPut up your dukes and write! / ‡rJack Kerouac to Marlon Brando -- ‡tYou must know again my reluctance to marry / ‡rAmelia Earhart to George Putnam -- ‡tI'd like to continue to be a good soldier / ‡rEddie Slovik to General Dwight D. Eisenhower -- ‡tThe Galilean moons / ‡rGalileo Galilei to Leonardo Donato -- ‡tThe birch bark letters / ‡rGavrila Posenya to relatives -- ‡tTo a top scientist / ‡rDenis Cox to a top scientist -- ‡tDeep sickness seized me / ‡rLucy Thurston to Mary Thurston -- ‡tHe's here, living and vivid and unforgettable forever / ‡rStewart Stern to the Winslows -- ‡tI miss my biggest heart / ‡rEmily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert -- ‡tYour end is approaching / ‡runknown to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- ‡tA most important discovery / ‡rFrancis Crick to Michael Crick -- ‡tThe skills of Leonardo da Vinci / ‡rLeonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza -- ‡tI am in a state of shock / ‡rFlannery O'Connor to a professor of English -- ‡tFederal agent at large / ‡rElvis Presley to U.S. President Nixon. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tDo not grieve for me / ‡rFyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky -- ‡t17 million negroes cannot wait for the hearts of men to change / ‡rJackie Robinson to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- ‡t11 alive.. need small boat... Kennedy / ‡rJohn F. Kennedy to Allied Forces -- ‡tWhere did that fall / ‡rSpike Milligan to Stephen Gard -- ‡tIn event of moon disaster / ‡rWilliam Safire to H.R. Halderman -- ‡tThe most beautiful death / ‡rLaura Huxley to Julian and Juliette Huxley -- ‡tRegarding your dam complaint / ‡rStephen L. Tvedten to David L. Price -- ‡tWhy explore space? / ‡rDr. ernst Stuhlinger to Sister Mary Jucunda -- ‡tI am very real / ‡rKurt Vonnegut to Charles McCarthy -- ‡tAn idiot of the 33rd degree / Mark Twain to J.H. Todd -- ‡tHang on, my love, and grow big and strong / ‡rIggy Pop to Laurence -- ‡tI wrote a book called The Godfather / ‡rMario Puzo to Marlon Brando -- ‡tThe result would be a catastrophe / ‡rRoger Boisjoly to R.K. Lund -- ‡tAll the ladies like whiskers / ‡rGrace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln -- ‡tI felt the risk of being overwhelmed / ‡rJames Cameron to Leslie Barany -- ‡tHow could you go ahead of me? / a widow to Eung-Tae Lee -- ‡tI am the servant of the king / Ayyab to Amenhotep IV -- ‡tI shall always be near you / Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou -- ‡tI'm still someplace / ‡rUncle Lynn to Peggy, Dorothy, Chuck, and Dick Jones -- ‡tThe birth of bonfire night / ‡rUnknown to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tIt's up to you now / ‡rBette Davis to B. D. Hyman -- ‡tForget your personal tragedy / ‡rErnest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- ‡tI was meant to be a composer / ‡rSamuel Barber to Marguerite Barber -- ‡tPermission to land / ‡rBuang-Ly to USS Midway -- ‡tSay yes I need a job / ‡rTim Schafer to David Fox -- ‡tWe no longer have any right to remain silent / ‡r36 Amercan writers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- ‡tKipling's hints on schoolboy etiquette / ‡rRudyard Kipling to editors of the Horsmonden School Budget -- ‡tSex does not thrive on montonony / ‡rAnaisÌ Nin to The Collector -- ‡tDear "Dr." Fields / ‡rBill Baxley to Edward R. Fields -- ‡tThe Heiligenstadt testament / ‡rLudwig van Beethoven to his brothers -- ‡tPay it forward / ‡rBenjamin Franklin to Benjamin Webb -- ‡tEddie's house / ‡rJim Berger to Frank Lloyd Wright -- ‡tI was ready to sink into the earth with shame / form letter -- ‡tSorrow passes and we remain / ‡rHenry James to Grace Norton -- ‡tIt will prove invincible / ‡rPhilip K. Dick to Jeff Walker -- ‡tThank you Bob / ‡rFrederic Flom to Bob Hope -- ‡tNew rubbish dialogue / ‡rAlex Guinness to Anne Kaufman -- ‡tI refuse to be cheated out of my deathbed scene / ‡rRebecca West to H. G. Wells -- ‡tObscene and sacrilegious / ‡rLord Bernard Delfont to Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings -- ‡tWretched Woman! / ‡rJermain Loguen to Sarah Logue. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tThis is no drill / ‡rCINCPAC to all ships -- ‡tDear 8 year-old Teresa / ‡rWil Wheaton to Teresa Jusino -- ‡tWhat a dandy car you make / ‡rClyde Barrow to Henry Ford -- ‡tLove, Dad / ‡rRonald Reagan to Michael Reagan -- ‡tWe are sinking fast / ‡rTitanic to SS Birma -- ‡tAn incredible coincidence / ‡rRobert T. Lincoln to Richard W. Gilder -- ‡tPixar films don't get finished / ‡rPete Docter to Adam -- ‡tMay we all get better together / ‡rCharles Bukowski to Hans van den Broek -- ‡tWe all feel like that now and then / ‡rSir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke -- ‡tIt was hard to give five sons to the Navy / ‡rAlleta Sullivan to U.S. Navy -- ‡tNothing good gets away / ‡rJohn Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck -- ‡tthe great fire of London / ‡rJames Hicks to his fellow postmasters -- ‡tIt is like confessing a murder / Charles Darwin to Joseph D. Hooker -- ‡tHardly one. Hardly one / ‡rArthur C. Fifield to Gertrude Stein -- ‡tJohn Lennon signed my album / ‡rMark Chapman to a memorabilia expert -- ‡tThings to worry about / F. Scott Fitzgerald to Scottie -- ‡tMy wick hath a thief in it / ‡rCharles Lamb to Bernard Barton -- ‡tVote for me and I will help you out / ‡rJohn Beaulieu to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- ‡tDo scientists pray? / Albert Einstein to Phyllis -- ‡tFor the sake of humanity / ‡rMohandas Gandhi to Adolf Hitler. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tI have not shot her yet / ‡rDorothy Parker to Seward Collins -- ‡tLetter to a young poet / ‡rRainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus -- ‡tWhat great births you have witnessed! / ‡rMark Twain to Walt Whitman -- ‡tEinstein's one great mistake / ‡rAlbert Einstein to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- ‡tCome quick to me / ‡rZelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- ‡tArt is useless because.. / ‡rOscar Wilde to Bernulf Clegg -- ‡tI leave it in your capable hands / ‡rMick Jagger to Andy Warhol -- ‡tSlaghterhouse-five / ‡rKurt Vonnegut, Jr. to Kurt Vonnegut. |
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