Dear Professor Cornwell, I’m a big fan of yours (standard e-mail beginning, I hope). I get more and more fascinated after each book of your I read. I’m now literally sunk in the Sharpe Novels, stuck in Trafalgar due to my lack in Ships knowledge. If you excuse me, I’ll keep calling you professor, for I think your work belongs both to literature an history worlds. And that’s why I entered in contact. I’m a history student in Juiz de Fora University, Brazil and I intend on doing some work regarding the values of historical novels to the worldwide historiography. Once a famous brazilian historian named Capistrano de Abreu wrote “The fiction writer creates, the true historian do not create but rewrite the history”. Maybe you rewrite or even belong to a third category that Capistrano have not identified, the History Novelist, which gives history new colors to original drawings. If you have the time, I would like to know your judgement on that. Best Regards, Tiago Duque P.S.: Sorry for bad English