Letters of note : correspondence deserving of a wider audience
2013
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Main title:
Letters of note : correspondence deserving of a wider audience / compiled by Shaun Usher.
Author:
Usher, Shaun, compiler
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2013.
Collation:
xvi, 368 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimlies ; 29 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 001.One'S Drop Scones / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 002.From Hell / Jack -- 003.Wind The Clock / E. B. White -- 004.I Am To Be Executed / Mary Stuart -- 005.I Hear You Like Tomato Soup / William P. MacFarland -- 006.Bill Hicks On Freedom Of Speech / Bill Hicks -- 007.Your Pal, John K. / John Kricfalusi -- 008.The Elephant Man / Francis Carr-Gomm -- 009.I Like Words / Robert Pirosh -- 010.I Can'T Fight Any Longer / Virginia Woolf -- 011.There Is No Money In Answering Letters / Groucho Marx -- 012.As Dire As Its Title / Ian Main -- 013.I Stand Astounded And Appalled / Charles Dickens -- 014.Fifty Lady Sharpshooters Await / Annie Oakley -- 015.To Hell With Hitler / Patrick Hitler -- 016.Thank You For The Dream / Roald Dahl -- 017.How I Would Like To Work For You! / Eudora Welty -- 018.'Music Is 'Life Itself / Louis Armstrong -- 019.To My Old Master / Jourdon Anderson -- 020.My Good Friend Roosvelt / Fidel Castro.Note continued: 021.A Man Has To Be Something; He Has To Matter / Hunter S. Thompson -- 022.I Beg You To Take My Child / Various Mothers -- 023.Eat Your Vegetables! / John W. James III -- 024.A Personal Letter From Steve Martin / Steve Martin -- 025.Is It A Disgrace To Be Born A Chinese? / Mary Tape -- 026.O.M.G. / John Arbuthnot Fisher -- 027.It Is Only Adults Who Ever Feel Threatened / Ursula Nordstrom -- 028.God Damn It, I Split It So It Will Stay Split / Raymond Chandler -- 029.I Shall Be Waiting For You / Lady Shigenari -- 030.My Muse Is Not A Horse / Nick Cave -- 031.Our Frank / The Connell -- 032.I Am Not Afraid Of Robots. I Am Afraid Of People / Ray Bradbury -- 033.Do / Sol LeWitt -- 034.What Did You Say? I Can'T Hear You / Katharine Hepburn -- 035.The Ax / Charles M. Schulz -- 036.I Love My Wife. My Wife Is Dead / Richard Feynman -- 037.You Are Not So Kind As You Used To Be / Clementine Churchill.Note continued: 038.Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus / Virginia O'Hanlon -- 039.I Have Just Written You A Long Letter / Alfred D. Winlle -- 040.Sweetheart Come / Emma Hauck -- 041.Avenge My Death / Masanobu Kuno -- 042.Don'T Touch His Hair / Three Elvis Presley -- 043.To: My Widow / Robert Scott -- 044.Put Up Your Dukes And Write! / Jack Kerouac -- 045.You Must Know Again My Reluctance To Marry / Amelia Earhart -- 046.I'D Like To Continue To Be A Good Soldier / Eddie Slovik -- 047.The Galilean Moons / Galileo Galilei -- 048.The Birch Bark Letters / Gavrila Posenya -- 049.To A Top Scientist / Denis Cox -- 050.Deep Sickness Seized Me / Lucy Thurston -- 051.He'S Here, Living And Vivid And Unforgettable Forever / Stewart Stern -- 052.I Miss My Biggest Heart / Emily Dickinson -- 053.Your End Is Approaching / Martin Luther King Jr -- 054.A Most Important Discovery / Francis Crick -- 055.The Skills Of Leonardo Da Vinci / Leonardo da Vinci.Note continued: 056.I Am In A State Of Shock / Flannery O'Connor -- 057.Federal Agent At Large / Elvis Presley -- 058.Do Not Grieve For Me / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- 059.17 Million Negroes Cannot Wait For The Hearts Of Men To Change / Jackie Robinson -- 060.11 Alive...Need Small Boat...Kennedy / John F. Kennedy -- 061.Oh Christ, The Cook Is Dead / Spike Milligan -- 062.In Event Of Moon Disaster / William Satire -- 063.The Most Beautiful Death / Laura Huxley -- 064.Regarding Your Dam Complaint / Stephen L. Tvedten -- 065.Why Explore Space? / Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger -- 066.I Am Very Real / Kurt Vonnegut -- 067.An Idiot Of The 33Rd Degree / Mark Twain -- 068.Hang On, My Love, And Grow Big And Strong / Iggy Pop -- 069.I Wrote A Book Called The Godfather / Mario Puzo -- 070.The Result Would Be A Catastrophe / Roger Boisjoly -- 071.All The Ladies Like Whiskers / Grace Bedell -- 072.1 Felt The Risk Of Being Overwhelmed By Giger / James Cameron.Note continued: 073.How Could You Go Ahead Of Me? A Widow -- 074.I Am The Servant Of The King / Ayyab -- 075.I Shall Always Be Near You / Sullivan Ballou -- 076.I'M Still Someplace / Uncle Lynn -- 077.The Birth Of Bonfire Night / William Parker -- 078.It'S Up To You Now / Bette Davis -- 079.Forget Your Personal Tragedy / Ernest Hemingway -- 080.I Was Meant To Be A Composer / Samuel Barber -- 081.Permission To Land / Buang-Ly -- 082.Say Yes I Need A Job / Tim Schafer -- 083.We No Longer Have Any Right To Remain Silent / American Writers -- 084.Kipling'S Hints On Schoolboy Etiquette / Rudyard Kipling -- 085.Sex Does Not Thrive On Monotony / Anais Nin -- 086.Kiss My Ass / Bill Baxley -- 087.The Heiligenstadt Testament / Ludwig van Beethoven -- 088.Pay It Forward / Benjamin Franklin -- 089.Eddie'S House / Jim Berger -- 090.I Was Ready To Sink Into The Earth With Shame / Form Letter -- 091.Sorrow Passes And We Remain / Henry James.Note continued: 092.It Will Prove Invincible / Philip K. Dick -- 093.Thank You Bob / Frederic Flom -- 094.New Rubbish Dialogue / Alec Guinness -- 095.I Refuse To Be Cheated Out Of My Deathbed Scene / Rebecca West -- 096.Obscene And Sacrilegious / Lord Bernard Delfont -- 097.Wretched Woman! / Jermain Loguen -- 098.This Is No Drill / Cincpac -- 099.Dear 8 Year-Old Teresa / Wil Wheaton -- 100.What A Dandy Car You Make / Clyde Barrow -- 101.Love, Dad / Ronald Reagan -- 102.We Are Sinking Fast / SS Birma -- 103.An Incredible Coincidence / Robert T. Lincoln -- 104.Pixar Films Don'T Get Finished, They Just Get Released / Pete Docter -- 105.May We All Get Better Together / Charles Bukowski -- 106.We All Feel Like That Now And Then / Sir Archibald Clark Kerr -- 107.It Was Hard To Give Five Sons To The Navy / Alleta Sullivan -- 108.Nothing Good Gets Away / John Steinbeck -- 109.The Great Fire Of London / James Hicks -- 110.It Is Like Confessing A Murder / Charles Darwin.Note continued: 111.Hardly One. Hardly One / Arthur C. Fifield -- 112.John Lennon Signed My Album / Mark Chapman -- 113.Things To Worry About / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 114.My Wick Hath A Thief In It / Charles Lamb -- 115.Vote For Me I Will Help You Out / John Beaulieu -- 116.Do Scientists Pray? / Albert Einstein -- 117.For The Sake Of Humanity / Mohandas Gandhi -- 118.I Have Not Shot Her Yet / Dorothy Parker -- 119.Letter To A Young Poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- 120.What Great Births You Have Witnessed! / Mark Twain -- 121.Einstein'S One Great Mistake / Albert Einstein -- 122.Come Quick To Me / Zelda Fitzgerald -- 123.Art Is Useless Because... / Oscar Wilde -- 124.I Leave It In Your Capable Hands / Mick Jagger -- 125.Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut.
ISBN:
9781782112235 (hardback)
Dewey class:
808.86
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
313710
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 808.86 LET | Available |
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