Letters

Here’s one of my new favorite blogs. What a great idea: “A Daily Selection of Correspondence by Authors, Writers, Poets, Painters and others”.

I love reading people’s letters. I just bought a second-hand copy of the correspondence of my intellectual idol Rebecca West – and I’m almost scared to start it. It’s so voluminous … daunting … but still: I drool just looking at that book!

Anyway – back to that blog. One letter a day. Awesome.

Excerpt from letter to Sir Walter Scott:

The moment all was done, the Duke clapped spurs to his horse, and was back in Downing Street within the 2 hours–breakfasted–and off for Windsor, where he transacted business for an hour or so, and then said: “By the bye, I was forgetting: I have had a Field day with Lord W. this morning.” They say the King rowed Arthur much for exposing himself at such a crisis. Such is the gossip of the Club. . . .
Yours affectionately,

J. G. Lockhart

Also – letter from Max Beerbohm!

More here. It’s a new blog – but I look forward to checking in with it daily.

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3 Responses to Letters

  1. Blu says:

    Thanks for the link. Funny thing: I just completed my second reading of Ivanhoe last week. I really enjoyed it. (The first time that I read the novel I was very young.) Reading Scott made me feel like an uneducated buffoon. I think that I spent almost as much time in my Oxford Dictionary as reading the novel.

  2. tracey says:

    Ooh! How great! I love the letter from LM Montgomery. ;-)

  3. Pepys says:

    So glad you enjoy Letters. Thank you for your kind words.

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