Past event
Date:
27-28 May 2017
Armed with a postbag full-to-bursting with riveting correspondence, Letters Live returned to the gorgeous Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales for the fourth time in 2017 following sold out events in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The two shows took place on May 27th and 28th in the Tata Tent, which has in previous years been host to letter readers including Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey, Jude Law, Tom Hollander, Toby Jones, Maxine Peake and Mark Strong.
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Highly Honoured Cousin
Johann Sebastian Bach to Johann Elias
Meeting Picasso
Edith Sitwell to Cecil Beaton
With great respect, Marge Simpson
Marge Simpson to Barbara Bush
Dear Princess Leia
Carrie Fischer to Princess Leia
Yours for Law and Order
Henry Root to Patrick Moore
This would make him mine
John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe
Mr. Trump causes severe distress
Allen Frances to The New York Times
What do I have to be guilty for?
A Muslim to London
The Raven is no more
Charles Dickens to Daniel Maclise
I daren’t blow off
Kenneth Williams to George Borwick
We all wish for peace
George Whitman to Anne Frank
I admire your balls
Hunter S. Thompson to Carrie Neftzger
Your miserable friend, Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll to Annie Rogers
I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction’
Mark Foraster to Michael White
How Beautiful!
Salvador Dali to Federico García Lorca
Hope in Our Eyes
Bach Prelude No. 1 in C Major
Dear Lupin
Roger Mortimer to Charlie Mortimer
What do you want from life?
David Lavelle to The Telegraph
Dear Orwell
George Orwell to TS Elliot
You are the best author in human history
Alan Moore to Joshua
God’s Law
An Adoring Fan to Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Dodi Smith to Walt Disney
The gales of grief
Samuel Beckett to Barbara Bray
Seeking wisdom
Cheryl Strayed to A Reader
I know, Mother, I know
Anne Sexton to Linda Sexton
The most beautiful work of all
Patti Smith to Robert Mapplethorpe
Don’t feel bad that I’m gone
Jim Henson to His Children, Friends and Family
My life is a perpetual nightmare
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine
I am sure you will agree
Edith Sitwell to Mrs. Almer
You will not have my hatred
Antoine Leiris to His Wife’s Killers
Darling, I love you
Dylan Thomas to Pamela Johnson
I do occasionally eat
Lucian Freud to Lynne Barber
Does it get easier?
