Shaun Usher - Brieven van belang: Onvergetelijke correspondentie. Brieven van: Iggy Pop, Fidel Castro, Leonardo Da Vinci, Anaïs Nin, [etc.]

Shaun Usher [ed.] -Brieven van belang: Onvergetelijke correspondentie. Brieven van: Iggy Pop, Fidel Castro, Leonardo Da Vinci, Anaïs Nin, Fjodor Dostojevski, Roald Dahl, Charles Darwin, Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Mick Jagger, Hunter S. Thompson, [etc.] - Amsterdam / Antwerpen - Podium / Luster - 2015 - 2nd edition - 368 pp - Paperback - 20,5 x 28 cm. - Design: Studio Jan de Boer.

Condition: As new.

Dutch translation of Letters of Note. Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (2013). Addictive collection of time documents: special, witty and/or bizarre letters from and to various celebrities. Illustrated with photographs, reproductions and facsimiles of the manuscripts and typescripts. With index.

¶ Includes the first use of the abbreviation "omg" – in a letter to Winston Churchill, Nick Cave tells MTV the truth, Beethoven's letter to his brothers 'I will always be misunderstood', an application letter from Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo's letter to the Doge of Rome of 1610, the recipe for scones Queen Elizabeth II sent to President Eisenhower, a letter from John Lennon's murderer to a collector, Gandhi's plea to Adolf Hitler, the letter from Hitler's nephew to the US President and Virgina Woolf's suicide note. RECOMMENDED!