This charming book is a collection of letters from famous people such as Elizabeth Taylor, Rachel Carson, Lafcadio Hearn and Anne Frank, all about cats. The letters range from heartfelt notes to lost cats, to messages to friends about feline companions, to complaints about city drivers responsible for a cat’s death. I suppose you have to like cats to appreciate these little notes, but this is a delightful little book.
“The cat, after your leaving him, seemed not certain of his character or his place and we changed his name to Delmore which immediately made him more vivid. The first sign of his vividness came when he dumped a load in a Kleenex box while I was suffering from a cold. During a paroxysim of sneezing I grabbed for some kleenex. I shall not overlook my own failures in this tale but when I got the cat shit off my face and the ceiling I took Delmore to the kitchen door and drop-kicked him into the clothesyard. This was an intolerable cruelty and I have not yet been forgiven. He is not a forgiving cat, Indeed he is proud.”