Early-1963, 100 years after Abraham Lincoln called for the release of all Confederate slaves by way of the Emancipation Proclamation, renowned author James Baldwin wrote the following moving letter t...
In 1956, not long after enlisting with the United States Air Force, 19-year-old Hunter S. Thompson landed a job as Sports Editor for The Command Courier, Eglin Air Force Bases newspaper, and immediat...
On December 13th of 1963, at a dinner event in New York, the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee awarded its annual Tom Paine Award to Bob Dylan, for his contribution to the fight for civil liberties...
In 1905, the "superintendent of the childrens department" at Brooklyn Public Library ordered that all copies of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn be removed from the room, due to their characte...
Late-1850, Abraham Lincolns step-brother, John D. Johnston, wrote to him and asked, yet again, for a loan with which to settle some debts. Said Johnston: I am dund & doged to Death so I am all mo...
In January of 1936, a young girl named Phyllis wrote to Albert Einstein on behalf of her Sunday school class, and asked, "Do scientists pray?" Her letter, and Einsteins reply, can be read bel...
In March of 1962, acclaimed author John Steinbeck wrote the following letter to Edith Mirrielees — a lady who, as his professor of creative writing at Stanford 40 years previous, ...
In June of 1971, just days before his 26-year-old son, Michael, got married, future-U.S. President Ronald Reagan sent him the following letter of advice. It really is quite stunning. (Source: Reagan:...
In July of 1918, whilst serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, Ernest Hemingway was seriously wounded in a mortar attack that resulted in both legs being "riddled&#...
On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be k...
In March of 1962, Alfred Hitchcock took a break during filming of The Birds in Bodega Bay and visited a local school to greet the pupils. Soon after, the schools principal wrote the following letter ...
Heres some sound, stern relationship a dvice from the great Noël Coward, in the form of an invaluable letter he sent to his good friend, Marlene Dietrich, in 1956. He was replying to a recen...
In 1892, deafblind author Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism after a short story of hers, named "The Frost King," was identified as being extremely similar to Margaret Canbys "Fr...
On July 22nd of 1992, during their famous joint tour with Metallica, Guns N Roses co-headlined at the Hoosier Dome in Axl Roses home state of Indiana. They appeared on stage last, almost two hours af...
December, 1959: C. S. Lewis writes the following letter to BBC producer Lance Sieveking and praises the recent radio adaptation of his Narnia story, The Magicians Nephew. He then clearly states ...
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In 1982, British tabloid The Sun reported that filming on Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life had been marred by an incident involving John Cleese and a group of extras dressed as Zulu warriors. Accord...
In January of 1971, a gentleman named M. J. Shields wrote the wonderful letter seen below to The Economist, on the subject of spelling reform — an idea famously championed by George Bernard...
In September of 1959, as he began to assemble a cast and crew for the first James Bond movie, Ian Fleming sent the following telegram to fellow novelist Eric Ambler, and asked him to find out whether...
In 1912, after she called him "the Old Maid of novelists" in a scathing review of his new book, Marriage, journalist and author Rebecca West met and fell in love with H. G. Wells. T...
In May of 1993, deeply offended by its "blasphemous" content, a priest wrote to Channel 4 and complained about the recent screening of "Revelations," a recording of Bill Hickss l...
From the pages of Diane Keatons highly recommended memoir, Then Again, come four brief, unsurprisingly entertaining letters from the inimitable Woody Allen. Says Keaton: I was his endearing oaf....
Early-1966, believing&nbs p;its contents to be "immoral," the Hanover County School Board in Virginia decided to remove all copies of Harper Lees classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, fro...
On May 10th of 1934, a month after the publication of his new novel, Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his friend, Ernest Hemingway, and asked for his honest opinion on the book ...
On May 2nd of 1940, a Reverend Leon M. Birkhead — National Director of "Friends of Democracy," an organisation committed to combatting "anti-Semitic propaga nda" — ...
In January of 1947, novelist Raymond Chandler wrote the following letter to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Edward Weeks, with regard to the title of a piece he had written for the magazine — a p...
When released in the early-1970s, Maurice Sendaks childrens book, In the Night Kitchen, caused quite a stir for one particular reason: its protagonist — a young boy named Mickey — was drawn nude in s...
The following intro and genuine exchange of letters forms the dedication to Will Rogers 1924 book, The Illiterate Digest. Image of Will Rogers via iCollector. "Most Books have to have an Excuse b...
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