In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.

Nikola Tesla, Elizabeth Taylor,

Charles Dickens, Anne Frank,

T.S. Eliot, Raymond Chandler,

John Cheever, Florence Nightingale,

Rachel Carson, Jack Lemmon

& many more