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Letters of note
Tweet Topic Started: Apr 12 2012, 04:25 AM (398 Views)
findus	Apr 12 2012, 04:25 AM Post #1
Jerry Kerr Posts: 4,444 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: September 10, 2010	Nothing quite like a good nosey into letters written by historical figures. http://www.lettersofnote.com/ I once stood in a bookshop for a good hour (skint alert!) reading a love letters version of this idea. Some exchanges were truly epic considering the actors and the circumstances of the times, but annoyingly most lacked introductory context (/my history is shoddy). Any fav letters?



reekie	Apr 13 2012, 09:41 AM Post #2
lum raker Posts: 3,201 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: September 16, 2010	After sitting next to, and seemingly being ignored by, JM Barrie at dinner one evening, AE Housman received the following note: Dear Professor Houseman, I am sorry about last night, when I sat next to you and did not say a word. You must have thought I was a very rude man: I am really a very shy man. Sincerely yours, J. M. Barrie. With typical mischief, Housman replied thus: Dear Sir James Barrie, I am sorry about last night, when I sat next to you and did not say a word. You must have thought I was a very rude man: I am really a very shy man. Sincerely yours, A. E. Housman. P.S. And now you've made it worse for you have spelt my name wrong. Probably my favourite exchange.



yasser	Apr 13 2012, 10:45 AM Post #3
Ivan Golac Posts: 1,250 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: November 15, 2010	A well known very attractive young lady wrote to Albert Einstein Dear Professor Einstein We should make babies together. With my looks and your brain the child would be something special. Old Albert replied simply. Dear Madam “What if the child had my looks and your brain?”



TheDean	Apr 13 2012, 11:31 PM Post #4
ALLEGEDLY CALICO Posts: 2,117 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: September 18, 2011	to the new Economic Secretary to the Treasury There's no money left. Toodle pip! Yours, Liam Byrne



the.mule	Apr 15 2012, 03:49 PM Post #5
Ian McCall Posts: 611 Group: Members Member #35 Joined: November 23, 2010	The scarlet letter


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