 Would
you like to glimpse behind the scenes and read family letters from
Paul M.A. Linebarger (who was Cordwainer Smith),
many written in his own hand?
I've compiled
a 54-page book which you can buy only from us. It's comb-bound,
8.5" by 11" and contains a dozen letters written between
1933 and 1962. Two of the longest letters, written to me when I
was a baby, spell out his personal philosophy—written, I'm
sure, in case he never returned from the war. 
It also includes
an emergency family passport that his parents obtained in Shanghai
in 1922, with a family photo, as well as a list of my father's travels
from birth to 1957.
I scanned
in all the letters and tried to make an ebook of it, but it
was an impossibly huge file. So I had it duplicated at
a copy shop. (The legibility of a few of the letters is
a little bad, specially when he wrote in red ink or didn't change
his typewriter ribbon. But it's all readable.)
Contents
of Letters from Paul
- Introduction,
by Rosana Hart
-
Letter to his parents from London, March 1933...page
6
- Poem,
July 1943...page 13
- First
letter from India, September 1943...page 14
- A
Letter on Right and Wrong, September 1943...page 16
- A
Letter on Permissible Wrong, October 1943...page 23
- The
Message from a Living God, Chungking, March 28, 1944...page
31
- Two
letters to his mother, 1944...page
39
- Letter
from Tokyo,1951...page 42
- Letter
from Singapore, 1954...page 44
- Letter
from Canberra, 1957...page 45
- Letter
about Cuban Missile Crisis, 25 October 1962...page
47
-
Emergency Family Passport, 1922, Shanghai...page 49
- Map
and edited list of travels of Paul Linebarger through
1957... page 51
(Letters
not specified are to me.—Rosana) |
Since I'm outside of the US a lot now, when our current stock
runs out, this probably won't be available.
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