Barack Obama’s Letter to Donald Trump January 20, 2016 Dear Mr. President – Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure. This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I… Read More
Category: Letters
Conan O’Brien’s press release regarding the Changes in The Tonight Show January 12, 2010 People of Earth: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been… Read More
George W. Bush’s Letter to Barack Obama January 20, 2009 Dear Barack, Congratulations on becoming our President. You have just begun a fantastic chapter in your life. Very few have had the honor of knowing the responsibility you now feel. Very few know the excitement of the moment and the challenges you will face. There… Read More
Bobby Henderson’s (founder of Pastafarianism) Open Letter to Kansas School Board May, 2005 I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for… Read More
Bill Clinton’s Letter to George W. Bush January 20, 2001 Dear George, Today you embark on the greatest venture, with the greatest honor, that can come to an American citizen. Like me, you are especially fortunate to lead our country in a time of profound and largely positive change, when old questions, not just about… Read More
Johnny Cash’s Love Letter to his wife, June Carter Cash June 23, 1994 Happy Birthday Princess, We get old and get use to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for… Read More
George H.W. Bush’s Letter to Bill Clinton January 20, 1993 Dear Bill, When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents… Read More
Sid Vicious’ List of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen’s Best Attributes: ~1978 What Makes Nancy So Great By Sidney 1 Beautiful 2 Sexy 3 Beautiful figure 4 Great sense of humour 5 Makes extremely interesting conversation 6 Witty 7 Has beautiful eyes 8 Has fab taste in clothes 9 Has the most beautiful wet pussy in… Read More
Mohandas Gandhi’s Letter to Adolf Hitler July 23, 1937 Dear friend, Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I… Read More
A Love Letter from Rockwell Kent to his wife, Frances March 1926 Frances! I am so lonely I can hardly bear it. As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love you utterly, so have you now become the whole world of… Read More
Siegfried Sassoon’s statement of willful defiance July 17(?), 1917 I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.… Read More
W.E.B. Du Bois’ letter to his 14 year old daughter, Yolande, as she went off to England for school October 29, 1914 Dear Little Daughter: I have waited for you to get well settled before writing. By this time I hope some of the strangeness has worn off and that my little girl is working… Read More
Tarzan’s Love Letter to Jane 1912 I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the… Read More
Samuel L. Clemen’s notice for his next burglar September 9, 1908 NOTICE. To the next Burglar. There is nothing but plated ware in this house, now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket, put the… Read More
John Swain’s Letter to his son, who was entering Yale University ~1908 My Dear Son: I am writing a few things I meant to say to you when we took our last walk together, the day before you left for Yale. l intended to say them then and I will even confess that l shamelessly… Read More
Helen Keller’s Letter to Samuel L. Clemons March 27, 1906 My dear Mr. Clemens: It is a great disappointment to me not to be with you and the other friends who have joined their strength to uplift the blind. The meeting in New York will be the greatest occasion in the movement which has so… Read More
Asa Don Dickinson’s Letter to Mark Twain regarding taking the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn books out of a children’s library November 19, 1905 DEAR SIR: I happened to be present the other day at a meeting of the children’s librarians of the Brooklyn Public Library. In the course of the meeting it was stated… Read More
George Bernard Shaw’s Review of a woman at a Don Giovanni performance to the London Times July 3, 1905 Sir, The Opera management of Covent Garden regulates the dress of its male patrons. When is it going to do the same to the women? On Saturday night I went to the Opera. I wore the… Read More
Jack London’s letter of Advice for a Fan ~1905 Dear Sir: Every time a writer tells the truth about a manuscript (or book), to a friend-author, he loses that friend, or sees that friendship dim and fade away to a ghost of what it was formerly. Every time a writer tells the truth about a… Read More
Fraterville, Tennessee Mine Disaster Victim Jacob Vowell’s farewell letter to his wife, Sarah Ellen Vowell His son, Elbert died with him. May 19, 1902 Ellen, darling, goodbye for us both. Elbert said the Lord has saved him. We are all praying for air to support us, but it is getting so bad without any air.… Read More
Letters from Jack The Ripper, 1888 Jack The Ripper ‘Dear Boss’ letter September 27, 1888 Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave… Read More
Bram Stoker’s Letter to Walt Whitman February 14, 1876 My dear Mr. Whitman. I hope you will not consider this letter from an utter stranger a liberty. Indeed, I hardly feel a stranger to you, nor is this the first letter that I have written to you. My friend Edward Dowden has told me often… Read More
Love Letter from Samuel L. Clemens to Olivia Clemens November 27, 1875 Livy darling, Six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. Every day we live together… Read More
Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Lydia Bixby, who lost 5 sons in the Civil War November 21, 1864 Dear Madam,—I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I… Read More
Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to the King of Siam, declining the offer of Elephants to help with the civil war. February 3, 1862 Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America. To His Majesty Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongut, King of Siam, Great and Good Friend: I have received Your Majesty’s two letters of the… Read More
11 year-old Grace Bedell’s letter to Abraham Lincoln, advising him to grow a beard October 18, 1860 Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only eleven years old, but want you should be President of the United States very… Read More
Sarah Lougue’s letter to her runaway slave Jermain Wesley Logan (Jarm Logue) His response is included below. February 20th, 1860. To JARM:- I now take my pen to write you a few lines, to let you know how well we all are. I am a cripple, but I am still able to get about. The… Read More
Charles Lamb’s letter to Bernard Barton, regarding his cold January 9th, 1824 Dear B.B.- Do you know what it is to succumb under an insurmountable day-mare,- “a whoreson lethargy,” Falstaff calls it, -an indisposition to do anything, or to be anything, -a total deadness and distaste,-a suspension of vitality, -an indifference to locality,- a numb,… Read More
Sydney Smith’s Letter to Lady Georgiana Morpeth February 16, 1820 Dear Lady Georgiana, Nobody has suffered more from low spirits than I have done- so I feel for you. 1st. Live as well as you dare. 2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you… Read More
Benjamin Franklin’s Letter to William Strahan July 5, 1775 Mr. Strahan You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. You have begun to burn our Towns and murder our People. — Look upon your hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! —… Read More
