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It mustn’t be very much help to you your first day in office—to hear children on the lawn at recess. It is just one more example of your kindness that you let them stay—I promise—they will soon be gone—Thank you Mr. President. Letters of Note is a collection of over a hundred correspondences across time. There isn't a unique theme to these letters and their arrangement is quite random. This letter is intended to respect people as people. Adhere to it or other measures will have to be taken to replace you. I am sorry if this hurts your feelings, but I am not running a business for your benefit. I expect a minimum – I repeat myself – a minimum of 40 hours per week. No one is exempt from this.

Any time any boss needs something and cannot get it because of credit, do not discuss our financial situation with the vendor — call Houston. If Houston cannot give satisfaction, get ahold of Mike Davis. Expense accounts will be approved by the employee’s superior in charge of a particular area, and then it will be approved in Houston before it is paid. Each person should sign and pay for his own expense account. Anyone who abuses or takes advantage of expense accounts will be terminated immediately. Fred Addison will inspect each rig at least once a week and not tell the toolpusher when he is coming. Sometimes, when the correspondents were not famous enough to warrant a photograph, Usher has included photography – like the image of earth from outer-space to go with a letter from the director of science at NASA, to a Zambia-based nun (she wanted to know why billions of dollars was being spent on space travel, when there were children starving here on earth.)

Goofy, my darling, hasn't it been a lovely day? I woke up this morning and the sun was lying like a birthday parcel on my table so I opened it up and so many happy things went fluttering up into the air: love to Doo-do and the remembered feel of our skins cool against each other in other mornings like a school-mistress. And you 'phoned and said I had written something that pleased you and so I don't believe I've ever been so heavy with happiness ... Darling— I love those velvet nights. I've never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a grand patron—or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it blends with day or in the full religious fan-fare of midnight or perhaps in the lux of noon— Anyway I love you most and you 'phoned me just because you 'phoned me tonight— I walked on those telephone wires for two hours after holding your love like a parasol to balance me. My dear— Executive personnel who are in my office and have to be excused to go to the bathroom may use the one located just outside my office so no time is wasted going all the way down the hall. only business calls will be made and charged to Tiger Oil or Tiger Drilling. No personal calls PERIOD.

Please treat my rugs as you would your own at home. If, for any reason, you spill something, wipe it up right away so it won’t stain. Whereas major figures understand the need for self-control and restraint, minor ones are sometimes moved rather by fear and pride. If only in the future major figures could still force minor ones to sit down at the negotiating table before they begin to fight! TO: All Employees, Tiger Oil Company, Tiger Drilling Company, Tiger Oil International, Inc., Houston Office Humans have been making lists for even longer than they’ve been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die.A note found on a 16th century mummified male in South Korea from his wife which starts "You always said, "Dear, Let's live together until our hair turns gray and die on the same day." How could you pass away without me? Whenever we lay down together you always told me, "Dear, do other people cherish and love each other like we do?" This is a business office. All correspondence and other things pertaining to this office will be typewritten.

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures. So how does one book manage this? Collected together are letters from various points in time, from various countries and famous and not-so-famous people. The letters themselves are often included. One is an original cuneiform letter from Ancient Egypt. Another a simple note in a long-dead language. one you won't forget shows a coconut shell, that John F Kennedy wrote an SOS note on in World War 2 when stranded on an island, that eventually brought rescue (and eventually made a White House paperweight). I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real. In case anyone does not know who owns Tiger Oil Company or Tiger Drilling Co., Inc., it is me – Edward Mike Davis. Do not let anyone think they are the owner but me.Pronašla su svoje mesto u ovom "literarnom muzeju" i ona bizarna (pismo Džeka Trboseka lokalnom inspektoru policije propraćeno komadom bubrega jedne od žrtava), vapijuća (pismo Krvave Meri nastalo dan uoči izvršenja smrtne kazne nad njom), očajna (oproštajno pismo Virdžinije Vulf), duhovita (ima ih na desetine), kao i ona pisma koja su ostavila neizbrisiv trag u istoriji ljudske civilizacije (Ajnštajnovo pismo Ruzveltu o pojedinostima koje se tiču atomske bombe). Moram priznati da sam sa znatiželjom čitao većinu njih. Jedno od pisama koje je na mene ostavilo najveći utisak je pismo koje je 1865. bivši rob poslao svom robovlasniku nakon što ga je ovaj, po završetku Građanskog rata u Americi, pozvao da se vrati na plantažu pamuka i pomogne mu da je spase. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I’ve done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don’t let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is!

You're wondering about the positives now, aren't you??!! Well there are lots, so I'll list them briefly: Don’t take advantage of me, because I am going to be looking down your throat. You need the job — I don’t! Each employee will sing in and out on the time sheet at the receptionist’s desk himself – the receptionist will not be responsible for it – you cannot just mumble to her that you are going downstairs – you will sign out and note where you are going on the time sheet and sign in when you return.If I don’t pay you enough money to do these things you want to do personally, then I suggest you ask for a raise or quit and get another job. emotionally. Saying goodbye. This is by far the best route. Your friends and family get to remember you the way you were in your prime. There are still a wonderful number of laughs and fun times to be shared, and a lot of time for everyone to get fully to grips with what's going on. But more than that we were friends, all four of us. All you did for me as a friend and the happy times we had. I always thought way before the nomination that Lady Bird should be First Lady—but I don’t need to tell you here what I think of her qualities—her extraordinary grace of character—her willingness to assume every burden—She assumed so many for me and I love her very much—and I love your two daughters—Lynda Bird most because I know her the best—and we first met when neither of us could get a seat to hear President Eisenhower’s State of the Union message, and someone found us a place on one of the steps on the aisle where we sat together. If we had known then what our relationship would be now. Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859) was a friend and mentor to the poet John Keats. He wrote a letter to Keats's carer Joseph Severn on 8th March, 1821, unaware that Keats had already died some two weeks previously. The theme of the letter was also echoed in Leonard Cohen's last letter to his friend and muse Marianne (written 200 years later). So, here I'm sitting up in a hospital bed, iPad at the ready and will try to make some sense of it all.

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