Dear Mr Cornwell, I have recently discovered Sharpe and you. I just want you to know how much my wife and i enjoy Sharpe and co, Awesome! You are up on a pedestal as an author and i absolutely love the style you write with, the wry humour and especially the historical accuracy. I am a black powder shooter here in NZ and i can tell you that all they guys i shoot with are aware of Sharpe and you and think just the same as me. You are doing Gods work!! I am planning to construct a Baker rifle (Rifled of course)as i build guns as a hobby. I can thank Sharpe for initiating me into the Ezekiel Baker world. This rifle is very important as you know. As it happens we have a mint Baker in our Te Papa Museum in Wellington and there are superb pics of it posted at (google)’Tower Baker’.Bakers were not issued in NZ and i am trying to find out how it got here. I am gathering up the Sharpe dvds and have started reading the books and can’t get enough. Thank god for library’s!! Anyway i don’t want to bother you just to let you know what pleasure you have given us. Please keep it up. You are a World treasure I’m sure. Cheers, Stuart and Claire

Hi again, Just read some of the letters to you. You are very popular!. What would it take to get you to write about the NZ Maori Wars?. There are RICH pickings here for you and you could well either unite or reignite New Zealand!!!!! Just a thought if you want to have a Southern Hemisphere Diversion sometime? A Maori lead character would be stupendous!(i promise not to seek a finders fee for the idea either-honest!) Cheers Stuart.