More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Shaun Usher

Softcover | 17.8 x 3 x 23 cm | 384 pp

Canongate | 2017 | 9781786891693

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 a rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.

Including letters from:
Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Steve Albini, 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.