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We have a letter from Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol that contains a wonderfully laid-back design brief for a Rolling Stones album cover; a handwritten note from Queen Elizabeth II to US President Eisenhower which is accompanied by Ma’am’s personal scone recipe; a remarkable and masterful riposte from a freed slave to his old master that will leave many of you punching the air; Virginia Woolf’s heart-rending final letter to her husband, written shortly before taking her own life; a beautiful, delicate letter of advice from Iggy Pop to a troubled young fan that could warm the coldest of hearts; a truly incredible letter penned by scientist Francis Crick to his son, in which he announces the discovery of the structure of DNA; a harrowing account of a mastectomy performed without anaesthetic, written by the 60-year old patient to her daughter; and an extraordinary job application letter from one of history’s most celebrated minds, Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, the letters I enjoyed the most were those which were penned not by celebrities, but rather by ordinary folks. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Brontë, and many more. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right.Like the haunting portrait of Virginia Woolf that accompanies her suicide note, discovered by her husband on their mantelpiece ( “If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. I dislike Ernest Hemingway, for example; I have Hemingway over-saturation and never need to hear of him again. one you won't forget shows a coconut shell, that John F Kennedy wrote an SOS note on in World War 2 when stranded on an island, that eventually brought rescue (and eventually made a White House paperweight). Scott Fitzgerald's letter of advice to his daughter Scottie, the letter sent to Baron William Parker in 1605 that foiled the gun powder plot and an Alabama attorney Generals official letter responding to a white supremacist’s threats “Kiss my ass”.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Usher provides the text separately so reading the content isn't an issue - I'd just love to see more of the letters themselves so I can treasure them even more. Addictive, like dipping into a bag of variously tempting assorted candies, knowing that the next one will always bring surprise and pleasure. A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. A heartwarming reply from Roald Dahl to seven-year-old Amy, who had sent him one of her dreams, contained in a bottle, along with a letter.

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! Um mês depois, junto com outros prisioneiros de guerra, foi levado para um campo de trabalho em Dresden e trancafiado num matadouro subterrâneo que os alemães chamavam de "Schlachthof Fünf" ( Matadouro Cinco). com – so I was thrilled when he pitched the idea for a Letters of Note book to the crowd-sourced publisher, unbound.