This timeless collection of correspondence celebrates our passions and touches the heart.
These four volumes, gathered in a beautiful keepsake collection, reveal our deepest thoughts and feelings on cats, music, love, and war. This gallery of correspondence assembles the private expressions and public pronouncements of people throughout history, from everyday folk to luminaries--including Ludwig van Beethoven, Frida Kahlo, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, and more--offering an engaging experience rich in discovery and reward.
Shaun Usher is a writer, editor, and compulsive collector of remarkable words. He is the author of Letters of Note, an international bestseller that began life as a blog and grew into a celebrated series of books and inspired the live stage show Letters Live, which he has co-produced since 2013. He has published 16 books so far, covering everything from love and grief to music, dogs, and outer space, and in October 2025 will release his 17th, Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time, a curated journey through a year’s worth of diary entries from history. He lives in Manchester with his wife, Karina, and their three children.