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(You’ll have to check out the book for the actual recipe.) Looking for a good drop scone (pancake) recipe? How about one from Queen Elizabeth II herself, on Buckingham Palace stationery! She shares her promised recipe with President Eisenhower, giving suggestions for alternate ingredients and proportions. I’ve excerpted some of my favorites below. From women who felt they needed to give up their babies to Steve Martin’s sense of humor to a postmaster in London during the Great Fire to a letter from Mark Twain to Walt Whitman extolling the important parts of history that Whitman had witnessed in his life… The book contains so much that will provoke great thought and discussion. These gathered letters cover the breadth of human experience.
#MARK TWAIN LETTERS FROM THE MOON FULL#
Some of these letters are just stunning, some are poignant, some are full of love, and some are quite sad. Some are handwritten, some typed, and for some, only the text is included. Like on the website, the letters contained in this book are often reproduced as they were originally, and often with a transcription for those that are hard to read. And you can use the attached ribbon bookmark to mark your place or mark your favorite letter. You can read and re-read this book and find new tidbits and inspiration each time. In a blurb from Stephen Fry on the front of the book, on a sticker no less, he says, “…this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. Many from famous people, a few from the lesser known, but more than 125 in all, many of which have not appeared on the website, and are here for your perusal. Based on the popular website by the same name, Letters of Note‘s subtitle is very telling: “An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience.” This book is filled with personal letters and other correspondence from throughout history.