Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

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This utterly charming collection offers a warm and friendly look at the place that cats occupy in our hearts and lives. Letters of Note” is in no way a jumbled mess and instead creates a spark of excitement, encouraging page-turning. Usher notably presents these letters in a very cohesive way forming an even pace and a unified strain even though each page features a different letter.

Includes letters from Carl Jung, Mary Cassatt, Mark Rothko, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, Mick Jagger, and more. My favorites were by Beethoven, Virginia Woolf, Louis Armstrong, Richard Feynman, and Sullivan Ballou. I'd have given it five stars except that for me the typeface introducing the letters is exceptionally small. Except that I live in a bungalow and don't have any room left for a coffee table, but that's another story (not in the book!From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives. These thirty letters capture the endless range of feelings that comes with being or having a mother.

The editor not only provides insightful context for each letter but he also transcribes each and shows the original; seeing Annie Oakley’s fabulous letterhead is a treat; Queen Elizabeth’s letter to Eisenhower about his stay at Balmoral and how she adjusts her recipe for scones is almost as charming as seeing how messy her penmanship is. uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. I love that reproductions of (most of) the actual letters are included: they're exquisite, unreadable, elegant, crass, heartbreaking. In a letter to her teenage daughter, Caitlin Moran explains that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts. A huge, very well produced hardback, that would make a great coffee table book or an excellent gift.Honestly, there aren’t really any letters that I skipped over; all were interesting and often moving for a myriad of reasons. He is the sole custodian of the popular blog, Letters of Note, a much-anticipated book of which is to be published in October 2013 following lengthy periods of hair-pulling and despair.