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Letters of Note: Dogs

Letters of Note was born in 2009 with the launch of lettersofnote.com, a website celebrating old-fashioned correspondence that has since been visited over 100 million times. The first Letters of Note volume was published in October 2013, followed later that year by the first Letters Live, an event at which world-class performers delivered remarkable letters to a live audience.

Since then, these two siblings have grown side by side, with Letters of Note becoming an international phenomenon, and Letters Live shows being staged at iconic venues around the world, from London’s Royal Albert Hall to the theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

You can find out more at lettersofnote.com and letterslive.com. And now you can also listen to the audio editions of the new series of Letters of Note, read by an extraordinary cast drawn from the wealth of talent that regularly takes part in the acclaimed Letters Live shows.

First published in Great Britain in 2021

by Canongate Books Ltd,

14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

canongate.co.uk

This digital edition first published in 2021 by Canongate Books

The right of Shaun Usher to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

For permission credits, please see p. 128

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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ISBN 978 1 78689 530 1

eISBN 978 1 78689 531 8

For all the good dogs, but especially . . . Red, Claouey, Maydi, Lola, Liam, Luna, Buddy, Holly and Darth

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

01 SHE DOESN’T ANSWER THE PHONE

E.B. White to the ASPCA

02 MY FAITHFUL DOG MIGHT BEAR ME COMPANY