Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (Historical Nonfiction Letters, Letters from Famous People, Book of Letters and Correspondance) 9781452134253, 9781452140865, 1452134251

This spectacular collection of more than 125 letters offers a never-before-seen glimpse of the events and people of hist

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Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (Historical Nonfiction Letters, Letters from Famous People, Book of Letters and Correspondance)
 9781452134253, 9781452140865, 1452134251

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 5
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 13
THE LETTERS......Page 15
Queen Elizabeth II to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower......Page 16
Jack the Ripper to George Lusk......Page 22
E. B. White to Mr. Nadeau......Page 24
Mary Stuart to Henry III of France......Page 26
William P. MacFarland to Andy Warhol......Page 32
Bill Hicks to A Priest......Page 33
John Kricfalusi to Amir Avni......Page 36
Francis Carr-Gomm to The Times......Page 45
Robert Pirosh to Various......Page 50
Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf......Page 52
Groucho Marx to Woody Allen......Page 54
Ian Main to Head of Comedy and Light Entertainment, BBC......Page 56
Charles Dickens to The Times......Page 57
Annie Oakley to U.S. President William McKinley......Page 60
Patrick Hitler to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt......Page 62
Roald Dahl to Amy Corcoran......Page 65
Eudora Welty to The New Yorker......Page 66
Louis Armstrong to Lance Corporal Villec......Page 69
Jourdon Anderson to Patrick Henry Anderson......Page 71
Fidel Castro to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt......Page 74
Hunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan......Page 78
Various Mothers to The Foundling Asylum......Page 82
John W. James III to U.S. President Richard Nixon......Page 86
Steve Martin to Jerry Carlson......Page 87
Mary Tape to San Francisco Board of Education......Page 88
John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill......Page 90
Ursula Nordstrom to A School Librarian......Page 91
Raymond Chandler to Edward Weeks......Page 92
Lady Shigenari to Kimura Shigenari......Page 94
Nick Cave to MTV......Page 97
The Connell Family to The Ciulla Family......Page 98
Letter No. 032......Page 100
Ray Bradbury to Brian Sibley......Page 101
Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse......Page 102
Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy......Page 109
Charles M. Schulz to Elizabeth Swaim......Page 112
Richard Feynman to Arline Feynman......Page 114
Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill......Page 117
Virginia O’Hanlon to Editor of the Sun......Page 118
Alfred D. Wintle to Editor of The Times......Page 120
Emma Hauck to Mark Hauck......Page 122
Masanobu Kuno to His Children......Page 123
Three Elvis Presley fans to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower......Page 124
Robert Scott to Kathleen Scott......Page 126
Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando......Page 134
Amelia Earhart to George Putnam......Page 135
Eddie Slovik to General Dwight D. Eisenhower......Page 136
Galileo Galilei to Leonardo Donato......Page 138
Gavrila Posenya to Relatives......Page 140
Denis Cox to A Top Scientist......Page 141
Lucy Thurston to Mary Thurston......Page 144
Stewart Stern to The Winslows......Page 149
Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert......Page 152
Unknown to Martin Luther King, Jr.......Page 154
Francis Crick to Michael Crick......Page 156
Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza......Page 165
Flannery O’Connor to A Professor of English......Page 168
Elvis Presley to U.S. President Richard Nixon......Page 170
Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky......Page 176
Jackie Robinson to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower......Page 180
John F. Kennedy to Allied Forces......Page 182
Letter No. 061......Page 184
Spike Milligan to Stephen Gard......Page 185
William Safire to H. R. Haldeman......Page 186
Laura Huxley to Julian and Juliette Huxley......Page 188
Stephen L. Tvedten to David L. Price......Page 196
Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger to Sister Mary Jucunda......Page 200
Kurt Vonnegut to Charles McCarthy......Page 207
Mark Twain to J. H. Todd......Page 210
Iggy Pop to Laurence......Page 213
Mario Puzo to Marlon Brando......Page 216
Roger Boisjoly to R. K. Lund......Page 218
Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln......Page 219
Letter No. 072......Page 224
James Cameron to Leslie Barany......Page 225
A Widow to Eung-Tae Lee......Page 226
Ayyab to Amenhotep IV......Page 228
Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou......Page 230
Uncle Lynn to Peggy, Dorothy, Chuck, and Dick Jones......Page 236
Unknown to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle......Page 238
Bette Davis to B. D. Hyman......Page 240
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 242
Samuel Barber to Marguerite Barber......Page 245
Buang-Ly to USS Midway......Page 246
Tim Schafer to David Fox......Page 248
36 American Writers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt......Page 250
Rudyard Kipling to Editors of the Horsmonden School Budget......Page 252
Anaïs Nin to The Collector......Page 254
Bill Baxley to Edward R. Fields......Page 256
Ludwig van Beethoven to His Brothers......Page 257
Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Webb......Page 262
Jim Berger to Frank Lloyd Wright......Page 264
Form Letter......Page 268
Henry James to Grace Norton......Page 270
Philip K. Dick to Jeff Walker......Page 272
Frederic Flom to Bob Hope......Page 273
Alec Guinness to Anne Kaufman......Page 274
Rebecca West to H. G. Wells......Page 281
Lord Bernard Delfont to Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings......Page 283
Jermain Loguen to Sarah Logue......Page 284
CINCPAC to All Ships......Page 288
Wil Wheaton to Teresa Jusino......Page 289
Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford......Page 290
Ronald Reagan to Michael Reagan......Page 292
Titanic to SS Birma......Page 294
Robert T. Lincoln to Richard W. Gilder......Page 296
Pete Docter to Adam......Page 299
Charles Bukowski to Hans van den Broek......Page 302
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke......Page 304
Alleta Sullivan to U.S. Navy......Page 305
John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck......Page 308
James Hicks to His Fellow Postmasters......Page 310
Charles Darwin to Joseph D. Hooker......Page 312
Arthur C. Fifield to Gertrude Stein......Page 319
Mark Chapman to A Memorabilia Expert......Page 320
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Scottie......Page 322
Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton......Page 324
John Beaulieu to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower......Page 326
Albert Einstein to Phyllis......Page 330
Mohandas Gandhi to Adolf Hitler......Page 332
Dorothy Parker to Seward Collins......Page 333
Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus......Page 337
Mark Twain to Walt Whitman......Page 339
Albert Einstein to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt......Page 344
Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 346
Oscar Wilde to Bernulf Clegg......Page 348
Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol......Page 353
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to Kurt Vonnegut......Page 354
Subscribers......Page 358
Permission Credits......Page 362
A Note about the Typefaces......Page 365
W......Page 366
About the Author......Page 367

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