I am reading Charles Dicken’s letters. Quite a lot of his correspondence was saved and put into books in the 1800s. I found the letter collections on Manybooks.net and downloaded them. I also have letters from Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. They are just fascinating to read.
Charles Dickens writes a lot to his illustrator telling him exactly what he wants the drawings of his books to look like. He writes a lot of the business of writing. One letter was a response to a fan from someone living by the Mississippi in America. It was a very heartfelt thank-you letter from author to fan. It was very touching. Apparently that letter was published in one of the perodicals that Edgar Allen Poe was editing at the time.
My Kindle has made a lot of obscure and fascinating reading much more easily available to me. I love it. I would not have found these letters outside of a university library, and there they are on Manybooks.net, a huge collection of them along with a novel called “Varney the Vampire”. I have not read it yet, but couldn’t resist downloading it. Gotta love a mid-18th Century vampire novel about a guy who hates what he is. Angel, much?
I hit a snag on the sleeves. I’m having trouble with the lace pattern in the round. I’ll figure it out eventually. It’s knitting, not rocket science. 
