Our blog topic on this Sunday is Famous Letters book _Frank McLynn Editor from 1993. The long Labor Day Holiday weekend continues! What a treat it is to explore books available with collections of historical based letters to add to my bookshelf. I’m almost through with reading Put A Stamp On It Herman Herst Jr book that I blogged on August 30th here which is great fun!
The timing is great for finding the book Famous Letters: Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World. It is a collection of letters that was published in 1993 in one book giving their historical perspective along with brief biographies. The collection has fifty letters.
The Editor for the book is Frank McLynn, a British author, biographer, historian and journalist. “He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley.”
The Publisher is the Readers Digest Association.
From the Amazon description: “Features Leonardo da Vinci humbly applying for a job, Marie Antoinette writing a farewell letter to her sister minutes before facing the guillotine, and George Washington’s angry response to the suggestion that he be crowned king. 20,000 first printing.”
On this Sunday I’ve gone ahead and ordered this book and looking forward to it arriving.
I’ll be sure to follow-up on it in a future mail bag themed blog post here so stay tuned!
Anchors Aweigh,
Helen
Famous Letters book _Frank McLynn Editor Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced
Image above upper left book cover AbeBooks.com. Famous Letters: Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World. Hardcover – October 1, 1993 by
Amazon.com excerpt – Famous Letters: Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World. Hardcover – October 1, 1993 by
AnchoredScraps.com blog post Put A Stamp On It Herman Herst Jr book August 30, 2016 written by Helen Rittersporn
