When Tom Fitzharris met Edward "Ted" Gorey in 1974, the two quickly struck up a friendship. Over the next year Gorey sent a total of fifty letters to Fitzharris. Every envelope Fitzharris received was illustrated by Gorey, and filled with surprises: typewritten letters with news and opinions from Gorey's life, handwritten note cards with unexpected quotes, sketches, inside jokes, and a host of other joyous miscellany.
Assembled here for the first time, these envelopes and their contents deliver all the humor, imagination, gossip, and wonder that came with being Edward Gorey's pen pal.
This book is delightful. Here's a bit I especially enjoyed as I'm slowly reading through it little by little.
The weather seems to have improved. I have already made a meatloaf, boiled a lot of eggs hard prepatory to devilling them, and there is a loaf of walnut cheese bread hopefully baking in the oven. I say hopefully as the dough was very peculiar indeed.It's funny to think of Edward Gorey cooking up picnic foods before company comes to his family's home for a summer break. But there you have it — he was devilling eggs, as he says.
