Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

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Please treat my rugs as you would your own at home. If, for any reason, you spill something, wipe it up right away so it won’t stain. Tom Ward reads the second volume of the American socialite’s uproarious diaries chronicling his years mingling with the British aristocracy.

The literary equivalent of a box of chocolates – bite-sized and pure addictive pleasure … The result is beautifully produced, with photographs and colour facsimiles of much of the correspondence. A gorgeous Christmas present.” If you don’t like it, that is your problem, because if the shoe fits, wear it. If the shoe doesn’t fit, you don’t have any worry or concern, and this letter is not an insult to you. If the shoe does fit, it means you didn’t do your job properly, and you have the problem, not me. This letter only pertains to the people who have abused their responsibilities. If you are doing what you are told, this does not affect you in any way. It only affects the people who neglect their duties.

Letters

A young Egyptian girl mourns her mother’s death in the fourth century AD. 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. Anne Sexton gives her daughter the advice to live life to the hilt, and be your own woman. In a letter to her teenage daughter, Caitlin Moran explains that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts. The film Ladybird inspires journalist Hannah Woodhead to write an emotional letter to her mother. While at seminary, Martin Luther King Jr. writes that he has “the best mother in the world.” These thirty letters capture the endless range of feelings that comes with being or having a mother. My son disappeared over seven years ago. One day while looking through his things, I found a letter he wrote to me several years ago. It was heartbreaking and comforting all at once. I'm so glad you finished your story— Please let me read it Friday. And I will be very sad if we have to have two rooms. Please. You will not leave your office while the guest is there. If I call for you, notify Jo Ann Wright or Dorothy Barnes that you have a guest.

Every employee in the Houston Office must work from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 18, 1978. In June of 1945, his wife and high-school sweetheart, Arline, passed away after succumbing to tuberculosis. She was 25-years-old. 16 months later, in October of 1946, Richard wrote his late wife a heartbreaking love letter and sealed it in an envelope. It remained unopened until after his death in 1988. After experiencing several months of chest and abdominal pains, and many tests and scans that threw up in turn suspected Bornholms disease ( the Devill'grypp), large hiatus hernia ( real enough but only of minor importance now), a CT scan brought out the real culprit- cancer of the pancreas. So on Wednesday last week a lot of that was cut out and I was moved to intensive care. Unfortunately although the remaining pancreas was clear there had been some spreading to two lymph nodes. I don't know much about these things but my understanding is that the lymph is a bit like a rugby fly half. Once the ball gets to him he can distribute it to anywhere in the park. So bottom line scenario is maybe anything from two months to two years ( but I wouldn't even like to rule out 20!) of a relatively ok life. I swear, but since I am the owner of this company, that is my privilege, and this privilege is not to be interpreted as the same for any employee. That differentiates me from you, and I want to keep it that way. There will be absolutely no swearing, by any employee, male or female, in this office, ever. My Dad, Peter Ferraz started the Splashy Fen Music Festival in South Africa. He had a boundless enthusiasm and optimism for life and handled his illness with such bravery.

In March 1973, acclaimed author E.B. White wrote the following perfectly formed reply to a Mr Nadeau, who sought White’s opinion on what he saw as a bleak future for the human race. " Each employee will sing in and out on the time sheet at the receptionist’s desk himself – the receptionist will not be responsible for it – you cannot just mumble to her that you are going downstairs – you will sign out and note where you are going on the time sheet and sign in when you return.

The follow-up to the Sunday Times bestselling Letters of Note– this time editor Shaun Usher turns his hand to lists. In case anyone does not know who owns Tiger Oil Company or Tiger Drilling Co., Inc., it is me – Edward Mike Davis. Do not let anyone think they are the owner but me. So digital watches were mere technological toys rather than significant improvements on anything that went before. I don’t happen to think that’s true of cellular comms technology. So that’s why I think that digital watches (which people still do wear) are inherently ridiculous, whereas cell phones are steps along the way to more universal communications. They may seem clumsy and old-fashioned in twenty years time because they will have been replaced by far more sophisticated pieces of technology that can do the job better, but they will not, I think, seem inherently ridiculous. As you know, after one full year of employment you receive two weeks’ vacation and two weeks respectively each year worked thereafter. Effective immediately, the two weeks per year must be taken one week at a time and begin the end of the week. There will be no more taking one or two days at a time and combining them with holidays and weekends. If, in my opinion, you deserve additional time off you must obtain it from me proving to me that you have worked hard enough to get it – not trying to edge a day here and a day there combined with the holidays. I am not a fool – I know you can take two weeks and stretch them into two months properly done so don’t insult my intelligence. Ask for it like a man. Also, in your absence, you must arrange to have someone perform your duties.Pronašla su svoje mesto u ovom "literarnom muzeju" i ona bizarna (pismo Džeka Trboseka lokalnom inspektoru policije propraćeno komadom bubrega jedne od žrtava), vapijuća (pismo Krvave Meri nastalo dan uoči izvršenja smrtne kazne nad njom), očajna (oproštajno pismo Virdžinije Vulf), duhovita (ima ih na desetine), kao i ona pisma koja su ostavila neizbrisiv trag u istoriji ljudske civilizacije (Ajnštajnovo pismo Ruzveltu o pojedinostima koje se tiču atomske bombe). Moram priznati da sam sa znatiželjom čitao većinu njih. Jedno od pisama koje je na mene ostavilo najveći utisak je pismo koje je 1865. bivši rob poslao svom robovlasniku nakon što ga je ovaj, po završetku Građanskog rata u Americi, pozvao da se vrati na plantažu pamuka i pomogne mu da je spase. Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. You will never tire of it.” But of course they are there only waiting for you to ask for them if the walls look too bare. I thought you would want to put things from Texas in it—I pictured some gleaming longhorns—I hope you put them somewhere.