Letters of Note 6 Books: Music, Love, Mothers, Art, Cats, and War

This set contains six books: music, love, mothers, art, cats, and war.
 
In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all stripes.
 
Includes letters by:
Ludgwig van Beethoven, Nick Cave,
Helen Keller, Keith Richards,
Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Erik Satie,
Angélique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen
John Coltrane, Kim Gordon
& many more
 
In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love's first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the regrets of unrequited feelings and the joys of passions known.
 
Includes letters by:
Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo
Georgia O'Keeffe, Zora Neale Hurston
Evelyn Waugh, Vita Sackville-West
Nelson Mandela, John Steinbeck
& many more
 
In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.
 
Includes letters by:
Caitlin Moran, Sylvia Plath,
Martin Luther King Jr., George Bernard Shaw,
E.B. White, Laura Dern, Louisa May Alcott,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bette Davis,
Richard Wagner, Martha Gellhorn
& many more
 
In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos.
 
Includes letters by:
Michelangelo, Salvador Dali,
Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi,
Oscar Howe, Martin Scorsese,
Henri Matisse, Mick Jagger,
Augusta Savage, Vincent van Gogh
& many more
 
In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.
 
Includes letters by:
Nikola Tesla, Elizabeth Taylor,
Charles Dickens, Anne Frank,
T.S. Eliot, Raymond Chandler,
John Cheever, Florence Nightingale,
Rachel Carson, Jack Lemmon
& many more
 
In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.
 
Includes letters by:
Martha Gellhorn, Alexander Hamilton,
Kurt Vonnegut, Mohandas Gandhi,
Mark Twain, June Wandrey,
Evelyn Waugh, Luis Alvarez,
Lord Horatio Nelson
& many more