{"id":6530,"date":"2007-05-24T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:32:32","slug":"letters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6530","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersoftheday.blogspot.com\/\">Here&#8217;s one of my new favorite blogs<\/a>.  What a great idea:  &#8220;A Daily Selection of Correspondence by Authors, Writers, Poets, Painters and others&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I love reading people&#8217;s letters.  I just bought a second-hand copy of the correspondence of my intellectual idol <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirjasto.sci.fi\/rwest.htm\">Rebecca West <\/a>&#8211; and I&#8217;m almost scared to start it. It&#8217;s so voluminous &#8230; daunting &#8230; but still: I drool just looking at that book!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; back to that blog.  One letter a day.  Awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lettersoftheday.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/j-g-lockharts-club-gossip.html\">Excerpt from letter to Sir Walter Scott:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The moment all was done, the Duke clapped spurs to his horse, and was back in Downing Street within the 2 hours&#8211;breakfasted&#8211;and off for Windsor, where he transacted business for an hour or so, and then said: &#8220;By the bye, I was forgetting: I have had a Field day with Lord W. this morning.&#8221; They say the King rowed Arthur much for exposing himself at such a crisis. Such is the gossip of the Club. . . .<br \/>\nYours affectionately,<\/p>\n<p>J. G. Lockhart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lettersoftheday.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/max-beerbohms-worthing-friends.html\">letter from Max Beerbohm<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersoftheday.blogspot.com\/\">More here.<\/a>  It&#8217;s a new blog &#8211; but I look forward to checking in with it daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of my new favorite blogs. What a great idea: &#8220;A Daily Selection of Correspondence by Authors, Writers, Poets, Painters and others&#8221;. I love reading people&#8217;s letters. I just bought a second-hand copy of the correspondence of my intellectual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37155,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/37155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}