Letters of Note: Dogs. Группа авторов

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      Letters of Note was born in 2009 with the launch of lettersofnote.com, a website celebrating old-fashioned correspondence that has since been visited over 100 million times. The first Letters of Note volume was published in October 2013, followed later that year by the first Letters Live, an event at which world-class performers delivered remarkable letters to a live audience.

      Since then, these two siblings have grown side by side, with Letters of Note becoming an international phenomenon, and Letters Live shows being staged at iconic venues around the world, from London’s Royal Albert Hall to the theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

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      First published in Great Britain in 2021

      by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2021 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Shaun Usher, 2021

      The right of Shaun Usher to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      For permission credits, please see p. 128

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on

      request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 530 1

      eISBN 978 1 78689 531 8

      For all the good dogs, but especially . . . Red, Claouey, Maydi, Lola, Liam, Luna, Buddy, Holly and Darth

       CONTENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       01 SHE DOESN’T ANSWER THE PHONE

      E.B. White to the ASPCA

       02 MY FAITHFUL DOG MIGHT BEAR ME COMPANY

      Frances Power Cobbe to The Spectator

       03 NEVER GET A BULLDOG

      Roald Dahl to his mother

       04 SHE’S NOT A BONE!

      Lewis Carroll to Alexandra Kitchin

       05 WHY NOT SEND AN ARMY OF BULL PUPS NEXT TIME?

      Richard Richardson to the Stars and Stripes

       06 I’M STILL SOMEPLACE

      Uncle Lynn to Peggy, Dorothy, Chuck and DIck Jones

       07 HOW I MISS HER

      Anna Seward to William Newton

       08 WE NEED YOUR HELP

      George Bush Sr. to the White House staff

       09 THE ALL SEEING EYE

      Morris Frank to Dorothy Harrison Eustis

       10 HIS BARK, AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, IS TREMENDOUS

      Thomas Dick Lauder to William Home Lizars

       11 SPOT

      Zora Neale Hurston to Jean Parker Waterbury

       12 HE IS INFINITELY MORE THAN THAT

      Helen Keller to Ichiro Ogasawara

       13 TRUST DOGS RATHER THAN MEN

      Patrick Brontë to Charlotte Brontë

       14 SHE WAS ALL I HAD

      T.H. White to David A. Garnett

       15 TELL HIM TO WAIT FOR ME

      Anaïs Nin and Rupert Pole

       16 HE IS MY SOLDIER

      Francesco Petrarch to Matteo Longo

       17 HE IS NOTHING BUT A LITTLE DOGGY

      Clara Bow to Dobbie

       18 HE PUT THEM ON THE RIGHT SCENT

      Bob Hope to Fala Roosevelt

       19 MY NICENS DOGSIE

      Marcel Proust to Zadig

       20 DASH IS VERY MAD INDEED

      Charles Lamb and Peter George Patmore

       21 A LOVELY LETTER ABOUT BASKET

      Gertrude Stein to Alexander Woollcott

       22 YOUR HIGHNESSE WOULD LOVE MY DOGGE

      Sir John Harington to Prince Henry

       23 HE