LETTERS OF NOTE: CATS

"He whom Pussy Po detains a captive in her silken chains, must curb the furious first of prey, Nor rend the warbler from his spray! Nor let his wild, ungenerous rage An unprotected foe engage. O, should cat of Darwin prove foe to pity, foe to love!" The grandfather to Charles Darwin wrote to his biographer, the poet Anna Seward in these veiled terms - the cats themselves escaped with their reputations unscathed. T.S. Eliot types a rhyming birthday party invitation to all Jellicle Cats for his four-year-old godson. Nikola Tesla exalts on the finest of all cats in the world. Jack Kerouac's mother grieves at the death of the family cat. This irresistible volume from the compiler of the bestselling series includes affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, Raymond Chandler, Anne Frank, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon writing to Walter Matthau, Edward Lear, Robert Southey, and many more - 27 letters capturing the profound delight of having or observing a cat. The letters are as revealing of the writers as they are of their beloved felines. 128 page paperback with rough-cut edges. Reminder mark