More Letters of Note

Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Shaun Usher

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781786891693
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782114550
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Letters
• Index: Literature

FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
INCLUDING LETTERS FROM:
Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Brontë and many more.
Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 001 – Torturing the Saxophone
• 002 – For Love and Honor
• 003 – Dear One
• 004 – I’ll Rap Your Head With A Ratchet
• 005 – Sorrow Comes To All
• 006 – I See No Beauty In Lopsided True Love
• 007 – My Earthly Mission Is Already Fulfilled
• 008 – King Sequoia
• 009 – Husband Until Death
• 010 – Break Break Break
• 011 – 1984 Vs. A Brave New World
• 012 – My Heart Almost Stood Still
• 013 – Go To Hell With Your Money Bastard
• 014 – the Parakeet Has A Goiter
• 015 – Along With This Letter Comes A Play
• 016 – Everyone Is Expecting Me To Do Big Things
• 017 – With Great Respect, Marge Simpson
• 018 – Slowly, Quietly, Never Giving Up
• 019 – She Was the Music Heard Faintly At the Edge Of Sound
• 020 – I Embrace You With All My Heart
• 021 – I Have Resolved To Escape
• 022 – With Many Good Wishes For Our House
• 023 – Letter To the Dead
• 024 – You’re Off, By God!
• 025 – the Tale Of Peter Rabbit
• 026 – Your Eager Mother
• 027 – the Matchbox
• 028 – All This I Did Without You
• 029 – Nothing To Eat But the Dead
• 030 – Tiger Oil Memos
• 031 – I Long For Freedom
• 032 – Janis Joplin Lives!
• 033 – Becoming Tom Clancy
• 034 – the JL123 Isho
• 035 – Dare To Stand Alone
• 036 – Arkell V. Pressdram
• 037 – the Outsiders
• 038 – I Can’t Look You In the Voice
• 039 – Do Not Be So Bloody Vulnerable
• 040 – From Heaven
• 041 – Cat Fancy
• 042 – New Fangled Writing Machine
• 043 – America’s Youngest Ambassador
• 044 – Sleep Well My Love
• 045 – This Is My Last Visit
• 046 – Brown Is As Pretty As White
• 047 – Every Ounce Of My Energy
• 048 – This Wretched Comedy As A Man!
• 049 – There Are Two Ways In Which This Can Be Done
• 050 – Yours Sincerely, Albus Dumbledore
• 051 – I’ve Got A Hunch
• 052 – We Are Unintelligible
• 053 – Gentlemen, I Just Don’t Belong Here
• 054 – I Miss Lorina Bulwer
• 055 – My Real Name Is David Jones
• 056 – A New Page In Motion Picture History
• 057 – I Loved the Boy
• 058 – A Pile Of 5000 Cats and Kittens
• 059 – It Must Be Nice To Be A Baby
• 060 – I Have Lost A Treasure
• 061 – A Ripple Of Flame
• 062 – Final, Complete and Irremediable Defeat
• 063 – A Force For Evil
• 064 – You Are A Beast
• 065 – It’s Burning Hell Without You
• 066 – I Drank Too Much Wine Last Night
• 067 – Let Us Blaze New Trails
• 068 – Your Type Is A Dime A Dozen
• 069 – We Can Change the World
• 070 – You Are A True Man
• 071 – What Do You Take Me For?
• 072 – Remember?
• 073 – I Hope You Don’t Feel Too Disappointed
• 074 – An Instrument Of Joy
• 075 – We Press You Close and Kiss You With All Our Strength
• 076 – How Did You Get Invented?
• 077 – Why I Am An Atheist
• 078 – Yours In Distress
• 079 – Oh My Ass Burns Like Fire!
• 080 – Terry Toma
• 081 – Do Not Remain Nameless To Yourself
• 082 – I See Him In the Star
• 083 – I Am Desperate To Have Some Real Fun
• 084 – the White House
• 085 – Your Organization Has Failed
• 086 – On Bureaucratese and Gobbledygook
• 087 – I Think I No How To Make People Or Animals Alive
• 088 – You Rang My Mother
• 089 – People Simply Empty Out
• 090 – A String Of Veritable Psychological Peaches
• 091 – the Appalling Horror
• 092 – You Are A Homosexual and May Never Change
• 093 – I Never Studied Grace
• 094 – I Do Not Like Scolding People
• 095 – Make Your Soul Grow
• 096 – There Are No Real Rewards For Time Passing
• 097 – I Am the Dead One
• 098 – Like A Tree In Full Bearing
• 099 – You Gave Me A Valuable Gift: You Took Me Seriously
• 100 – the Miserable’s Name Is Man
• 101 – We Were Not Found Wanting
• 102 – Sheer Enchantment
• 103 – I Have Never Seen Anything Like It
• 104 – Energy Equals Mass Times the Speed Of Light Squared Stop
• 105 – I Think You’re A Damn Fool
• 106 – the Greatest Musical Pleasure I Have Ever Experienced
• 107 – I Know What Taste Is and What Vulgarity Is
• 108 – I Would Like To Give You Your Own History
• 109 – This Is Quite True
• 110 – I Shall Expect You, Sister
• 111 – Let Me Alone
• 112 – F**K Tha Police
• 113 – I Have Always Been Talked About
• 114 – Grow Up As Good Revolutionaries
• 115 – We Hope You Shall Try…
• 116 – I Don’t Enjoy This War One Bit
• 117 – I Shall Always Be With You
• 118 – P.S. This Is My Favorite Memo Ever
• 119 – Dear Friends All
• 120 – My Mother Declared My Bedroom A Disaster Area
• 121 – Thanks, Mr. Edison
• 122 – the Most Extraordinary Scene
• Acknowledgements
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• Permission credits
• Copyright