A review by _astridedwards_
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher

5.0

[b:Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience|18078311|Letters of Note An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience|Shaun Usher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1372089448s/18078311.jpg|25384959] is based on a simple yet brilliant concept, and is wonderfully executed.
[a:Shaun Usher|7135502|Shaun Usher|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1371530750p2/7135502.jpg] has collated some of the most famous letters and notes of history (think of what the alternative draft for the moon landing said in the event that it was not a success), and interspersed them with personal letters of the average men and women whose thoughts are so rarely recorded by history (think of the letter a single mother left with her baby on the steps of an English orphanage).
This is a work you will dip into again and again to read the letters that most strike a cord with you. And after you enjoy this, you will no doubt want to follow up with the second book, [b:Lists of Note|23123095|Lists of Note|Shaun Usher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1409325539s/23123095.jpg|42671897].