num_pages: 384
description: Letters of Note is a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining inspiring and unusual letters based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people.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.Including letters from:Queen Elizabeth II Elvis Presley Charles Schulz Leonardo da Vinci Iggy Pop Fidel Castro Anas Nin Fyodor Dostoevsky Amelia Earhart Charles Darwin Roald Dahl Albert Einstein Dorothy Parker John F. Kennedy Groucho Marx Charles Dickens Katharine Hepburn Mick Jagger Steve Martin Clementine Churchill Ray Bradbury Kurt Vonnegut and many more.
language: English
title: Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
publisher: Canongate Unbound