Past event
Date:
4-6 March 2020
On March 4th, 5th and 6th 2020 Letters Live made its 4th appearance at London’s iconic Union Chapel.
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Fuck off
Billy Connolly to Eric Idle
You’ll love our little club
Dashiell Hammett to Josephine Hammett (his daughter)
I will not make you a slave
Flint (10 years old) to Albert Ramon
Potto is dead
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville West
Please change your hold music
Dr. Steven Schlozman to CVS
O, Excellent Air-Bag!
Robert Southey
We are in a desperate state
Sir Robert Falcoln Scott to Sir JM Barrie
You are one of nature’s diarrhoea sufferers
Roger Mortimer to Charles Mortimer
Take us on your expedition
Three sporty girls to Sir Ernest Shackleton
Into Eternity
Vilma Grunwald to Kurt Grunwald
Try growing up
Martha Gellhorn to Betsy Drake
You may not send us your verses
Angus and Robertson to FC Meyer
You are your father
Saul Bellow to Martin Amis
I’m going to mope about you in the bath
Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Macnamara
I have never loved as I love you
Vladimir Nabokov to Vera
I want to crawl up inside you
Patrick to Jessica
We smelt of not washing all over
Charles Darwin to A friend
They were totally good for nothing
Indians of Six Nations to William & Mary College
Also
Lady Elizabeth Compton to Lord William Compton
Along with this letter comes a play
Shelagh Delaney to Joan Littlewood
Dearest Winston you make me very unhappy
Lady Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill
Black is the Colour
The Jelly Fish Man
Wimbledon FC to Various
It is the lightning that does the work
Mark Twain to Unknown
How can you live like this?
Oliver Beale to Richard Branson
Away from you I am as nothing
Lester Halbreich to Shirley Halbreich
Your loving Virginia
Virginia Woolf to Her mother
The battle draws near
Clara Barton to Her cousin
My darling Pickle
Sue Perkins to Pickle
Mine’s a double
Rik Mayall to Orson Welles
Am I really writing this at all?
Raymond Chandler to Charles Morton
He’s here, living and vivid and unforgettable forever
Stewart Stern to The Winslows
Are you still me?
Kirsten Gronfeld to her future self
Your most devoted reader
Walter Matthau to Pauline Kael
All these must be free
Rabbi Frank to his son
Love your enemies
Egbert Wagner to The Brewsters
I want your dry bones to quiver with joy
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
I shall die with my head held high
Blanca Brissac Vázquez Her son
There is no danger down here
Wilfred Owen to Susan Owen
Dear friend
Hermione Gingold to A friend
Imposter
Coat
The creative urge
John Coltrane to Don DeMichael
I have eaten
Oscar Brittle to Sydney Morning Herald
If you can understand THAT, you can understand Parsons
Kenneth Williams to Frances Meredith
Stupidity
Name withheld to Superior Insurance
He eats like a gentleman
Florence Nightingale to Mrs. Frost
I will be there in the trees
Kathleen Keyes to Irish Times
I must not feel anything
Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas
My disgust flows over
Ezra Pound to James Pinker
To all incredible women
Serena Williams to Incredible women
We don’t need discouragement, but inspiration
Zooey Deschanel to Vogue magazine
Hoping you fry in hell
Alexander Woollcott to Ira Gershwin
Don’t let mamma come in
Matthew Arnold to Lady de Rothschild
Imagine a city without pickling spice
Ralph Ellison to Albert Murray
He asked only for equality
Rod Serling to LA Times
I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction’
Mark Forstater to Michael White
I did not know I could be so moved
George Bernard Shaw to HG Wells
Is this too much to ask of white American chivalry?
Augusta Savage to Editor of The World
I aint never seen nothing like it
Nina Simone to Andy Stroud
Like a tree in full bearing
Charlotte Bronte to W.S. Williams
I have enclosed your letter
Bobby Freeman to Greater Anglia Rail
Recasting Bond
Herbert Gusset to Daily Telegraph
I have the best mother in the world
Martin Luther King Jr. to Mother Alberta King Williams
Do not be alarmed
Gary Krist to Barbara Mackle
Not the cabbage
Owen James to The Ritz
The struggle must continue
Eddie Glaude Langston Glaude
Burning in Birmingham
