Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

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Florence Nightingale sends care instructions to the woman who has just adopted her angora tomcat Mr. 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. an US-Präsident Eisenhower in dem sie ihm ein Rezept für Eierkuchen schickt, ebenso interessant fand ich den Brief von Jack the Ripper, aber auch die Briefe von Müttern aus den 1870ger Jahren an ein Findelhaus waren sehr bewegend! Melissa Rivers lovingly chides her mother, Joan, for treating her house like a hotel and taking her thirteen-year-old son to see Last Tango in Paris. What an array of choices from a letter engraved on bark dating to 1350 to the hilarious retort to the Dept.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Letters of Note ist eine Sammlung von 125 der unterhaltsamsten, inspirierendsten und ungewöhnlichsten Briefe der Weltgeschichte. 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.

Foi o cabo dos trabalhos para conseguir o ebook, e não é, de certeza a melhor opção para este género de trabalho. Illustrated with colour facsimiles of the original letters, it includes Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor on their divorce, David Bowie's touching reply to his first American fan letter, and the final missive from a doomed Japan Airlines flight. Zelda Fitzgerald, Iggy Pop, Fidel Castro, Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Hicks, Anaïs Nin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Amelia Earhart, Charles Darwin, Roald Dahl, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Dorothy Parker, John F. Kennedy, Groucho Marx, Charles Dickens, Katharine Hepburn, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Clementine Churchill, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut and many more. As a result, he spends much of his life hunting down letters and making lists of things he'd like to share.

The way the letters are laid out is brilliant and allows the book to flow from one letter to another quickly and simply, and it doesn't ever feel overly stodgy with info. The letters are wide ranging, letters of great historical importance, letters of consolation, some light hearted notes, letters from famous personages and letters from not so famous personages but that are equally as interesting. Página a página vas descubriendo eventos históricos que desconocías o personaje que aludían tu atención. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.It would make a precious gift and really is quite a beautiful object in its hardback, illustrated A4 state. Letters of Note” is in no way a jumbled mess and instead creates a spark of excitement, encouraging page-turning.

On your travels you will read love letters, rejection letters, fan letters, apology letters; you will be saddened, maddened, delighted and shocked. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.So there’s a stunning reproduction of her own stationary that Annie Oakley wrote on to US President William McKinley, when she was offering her army of “lady sharp-shooters” to the Spanish-American war (he declined). A small detail worth noting (no pun intended) is the beautiful presentation of including an attached ribbon page-holder to “Letter of Note” which adds sentiment and an element of elegance. The perfect Mother’s Day gift - a compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with mothers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote. A splendid new volume of missives about art, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. Neben den Übersetzungen sind sofern möglich auch die Originale abgebildet, was dem Ganzen eine sehr persönliche und noch einzigartigere Note verleiht!

Great to read and to get an insight into the mental processes and thought processes of various eras. His first book, Letters of Note, was jointly published by Unbound and Canongate to widespread acclaim and has since become an international bestseller. These thirty letters capture the endless range of feelings that comes with being or having a mother. Eisenhower (especially for fans of The Crown), followed up a few pages later with a letter from Mary Stuart to Henry III of France. 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).Hand written letters are fast becoming a thing of the past and consequently young generations find deciphering handwriting a difficult task.