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Index
Title
Dedication
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
The Letters
Letter No. 001
One’s Drop Scones
(Queen Elizabeth II to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter No. 002
From Hell
Jack the Ripper to George Lusk
Letter No. 003
Wind the Clock
E. B. White to Mr. Nadeau
Letter No. 004
I am to be Executed
Mary Stuart to Henry III of France
Letter No. 005
I hear you like Tomato Soup
William P. MacFarland to Andy Warhol
Letter No. 006
Bill Hicks on Freedom of Speech
Bill Hicks to A Priest
Letter No. 007
Your Pal, John K.
John Kricfalusi to Amir Avni
Letter No. 008
The Elephant Man
Francis Carr-Gomm to The Times
Letter No. 009
I Like Words
Robert Pirosh to Various
Letter No. 010
I can’t Fight any Longer
Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf
Letter No. 011
There is no Money in Answering Letters
Groucho Marx to Woody Allen
Letter No. 012
As Dire as its Title
Ian Main to Head of Comedy and Light Entertainment, BBC
Letter No. 013
I Stand Astounded and Appalled
Charles Dickens to The Times
Letter No. 014
Fifty Lady Sharpshooters Await
Annie Oakley to U.S. President William McKinley
Letter No. 015
To Hell with Hitler
Patrick Hitler to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letter No. 016
Thank you for the Dream
Roald Dahl to Amy Corcoran
Letter No. 017
How I would like to Work for You!
Eudora Welty to The New Yorker
Letter No. 018
‘Music is ‘Life It’Self
Louis Armstrong to Lance Corporal Villec
Letter No. 019
To my Old Master
Jourdon Anderson to Patrick Henry Anderson
Letter No. 020
My Good Friend Roosvelt
Fidel Castro to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letter No. 021
A Man has to be Something; He has to Matter
Hunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan
Letter No. 022
I Beg you to Take My Child
Various Mothers to The Foundling Asylum
Letter No. 023
Eat Your Vegetables!
John W. James III to U.S. President Richard Nixon
Letter No. 024
A Personal Letter from Steve Martin
Steve Martin to Jerry Carlson
Letter No. 025
Is it a Disgrace to be Born a Chinese?
Mary Tape to San Francisco Board of Education
Letter No. 026
O.M.G.
John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill
Letter No. 027
It is Only Adults who ever Feel Threatened
Ursula Nordstrom to A School Librarian
Letter No. 028
God Damn it, I Split it so it will Stay Split
Raymond Chandler to Edward Weeks
Letter No. 029
I Shall be Waiting for you
Lady Shigenari to Kimura Shigenari
Letter No. 030
My Muse is not a Horse
Nick Cave to MTV
Letter No. 031
Our Frank
The Connell Family to The Ciulla Family
Letter No. 032
I am not Afraid of Robots. I am Afraid of People
Ray Bradbury to Brian Sibley
Letter No. 033
Do
Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
Letter No. 034
What Did you Say? I Can’t hear you . . .
Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy
Letter No. 035
The Ax
Charles M. Schulz to Elizabeth Swaim
Letter No. 036
I Love My Wife. My Wife is Dead.
Richard Feynman to Arline Feynman
Letter No. 037
You are not so Kind as you Used to be
Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill
Letter No. 038
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Virginia O’Hanlon to Editor of the Sun
Letter No. 039
I Have Just Written you a Long Letter
Alfred D. Wintle to Editor of The Times
Letter No. 040
Sweetheart, Come
Emma Hauck to Mark Hauck
Letter No. 041
Avenge My Death
Masanobu Kuno to His Children
Letter No. 042
Don’t Touch his Hair
Three Elvis Presley fans to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter No. 043
To: My Widow
Robert Scott to Kathleen Scott
Letter No. 044
Put up Your Dukes and Write!
Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando
Letter No. 045
You Must Know Again My Reluctance to Marry
Amelia Earhart to George Putnam
Letter No. 046
I’d Like to Continue to be a Good Soldier
Eddie Slovik to General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter No. 047
The Galilean Moons
Galileo Galilei to Leonardo Donato
Letter No. 048
The Birch Bark Letters
Gavrila Posenya to Relatives
Letter No. 049
To a Top Scientist
Denis Cox to A Top Scientist
Letter No. 050
Deep Sickness Seized Me
Lucy Thurston to Mary Thurston
Letter No. 051
He’s Here, Living and Vivid and Unforgettable Forever
Stewart Stern to The Winslows
Letter No. 052
I miss my Biggest Heart
Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert
Letter No. 053
Your end is Approaching
Unknown to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter No. 054
A Most Important Discovery
Francis Crick to Michael Crick
Letter No. 055
The Skills of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza
Letter No. 056
I Am in a State of Shock
Flannery O’Connor to A Professor of English
Letter No. 057
Federal Agent at Large
Elvis Presley to U.S. President Richard Nixon
Letter No. 058
Do Not Grieve for Me
Fyodor Dostoevsky to Mikhail Dostoevsky
Letter No. 059
17 Million Negroes Cannot Wait for the Hearts of Men to Change
Jackie Robinson to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter No. 060
11 Alive . . . Need Small Boat . . . Kennedy
John F. Kennedy to Allied Forces
Letter No. 061
Where did that Fall
Spike Milligan to Stephen Gard
Letter No. 062
In Event of Moon Disaster
William Safire to H. R. Haldeman
Letter No. 063
The Most Beautiful Death
Laura Huxley to Julian and Juliette Huxley
Letter No. 064
Regarding Your Dam Complaint
Stephen L. Tvedten to David L. Price
Letter No. 065
Why Explore Space?
Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger to Sister Mary Jucunda
Letter No. 066
I am very Real
Kurt Vonnegut to Charles McCarthy
Letter No. 067
An Idiot of the 33rd Degree
Mark Twain to J. H. Todd
Letter No. 068
Hang on, My Love, and Grow Big and Strong
Iggy Pop to Laurence
Letter No. 069
I Wrote a Book Called The Godfather
Mario Puzo to Marlon Brando
Letter No. 070
The Result Would be a Catastrophe
Roger Boisjoly to R. K. Lund
Letter No. 071
All the Ladies Like Whiskers
Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln
Letter No. 072
I Felt the Risk of Being Overwhelmed
James Cameron to Leslie Barany
Letter No. 073
How Could you Go Ahead of Me?
A Widow to Eung-Tae Lee
Letter No. 074
I am the Servant of the King
Ayyab to Amenhotep IV
Letter No. 075
I Shall Always be Near You
Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou
Letter No. 076
I’m Still Someplace
Uncle Lynn to Peggy, Dorothy, Chuck, and Dick Jones
Letter No. 077
The Birth of Bonfire Night
Unknown to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle
Letter No. 078
It’s up to you Now
Bette Davis to B. D. Hyman
Letter No. 079
Forget Your Personal Tragedy
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Letter No. 080
I Was Meant to be a Composer
Samuel Barber to Marguerite Barber
Letter No. 081
Permission to Land
Buang-Ly to USS Midway
Letter No. 082
Say yes I Need a Job
Tim Schafer to David Fox
Letter No. 083
We no Longer have any Right to Remain Silent
36 American Writers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letter No. 084
Kipling’s Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette
Rudyard Kipling to Editors of the Horsmonden School Budget
Letter No. 085
Sex does not Thrive on Monotony
Anaïs Nin to The Collector
Letter No. 086
Dear “Dr.” Fields
Bill Baxley to Edward R. Fields
Letter No. 087
The Heiligenstadt Testament
Ludwig van Beethoven to His Brothers
Letter No. 088
Pay it Forward
Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Webb
Letter No. 089
Eddie’s House
Jim Berger to Frank Lloyd Wright
Letter No. 090
I Was Ready to Sink into the Earth with Shame
Form Letter
Letter No. 091
Sorrow Passes and we Remain
Henry James to Grace Norton
Letter No. 092
It Will Prove Invincible
Philip K. Dick to Jeff Walker
Letter No. 093
Thank you Bob
Frederic Flom to Bob Hope
Letter No. 094
New Rubbish Dialogue
Alec Guinness to Anne Kaufman
Letter No. 095
I Refuse to be Cheated Out of My Deathbed Scene
Rebecca West to H. G. Wells
Letter No. 096
Obscene and Sacrilegious
Lord Bernard Delfont to Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings
Letter No. 097
Wretched Woman!
Jermain Loguen to Sarah Logue
Letter No. 098
This is no Drill
CINCPAC to All Ships
Letter No. 099
Dear 8 Year-Old Teresa
Wil Wheaton to Teresa Jusino
Letter No. 100
What a Dandy Car you Make
Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford
Letter No. 101
Love, Dad
Ronald Reagan to Michael Reagan
Letter No. 102
We are Sinking Fast
Titanic to SS Birma
Letter No. 103
An Incredible Coincidence
Robert T. Lincoln to Richard W. Gilder
Letter No. 104
Pixar Films Don’t Get Finished
Pete Docter to Adam
Letter No. 105
May We all Get Better Together
Charles Bukowski to Hans van den Broek
Letter No. 106
We All Feel Like that Now and Then
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke
Letter No. 107
It Was Hard to Give Five Sons to the Navy
Alleta Sullivan to U.S. Navy
Letter No. 108
Nothing Good Gets Away
John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck
Letter No. 109
The Great Fire of London
James Hicks to His Fellow Postmasters
Letter No. 110
It is Like Confessing a Murder
Charles Darwin to Joseph D. Hooker
Letter No. 111
Hardly One. Hardly One
Arthur C. Fifield to Gertrude Stein
Letter No. 112
John Lennon Signed my Album
Mark Chapman to A Memorabilia Expert
Letter No. 113
Things to Worry About
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Scottie
Letter No. 114
My Wick Hath a Thief in It
Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton
Letter No. 115
Vote for me I Will Help you Out
John Beaulieu to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter No. 116
Do Scientists Pray?
Albert Einstein to Phyllis
Letter No. 117
For the Sake of Humanity
Mohandas Gandhi to Adolf Hitler
Letter No. 118
I have not Shot Her Yet
Dorothy Parker to Seward Collins
Letter No. 119
Letter to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus
Letter No. 120
What Great Births you have Witnessed!
Mark Twain to Walt Whitman
Letter No. 121
Einstein’s One Great Mistake
Albert Einstein to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letter No. 122
Come Quick to Me
Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Letter No. 123
Art is Useless Because . . .
Oscar Wilde to Bernulf Clegg
Letter No. 124
I Leave it in your Capable Hands
Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol
Letter No. 125
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to Kurt Vonnegut
Subscribers
Permission Credits
Acknowledgments
A Note about the Typefaces
Index
About the Author
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