Dearest Mr.Cornwell,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! Your response is not something I seek. I only wanted to thank you. Your stories are truly a worthy diversion. I use to love reading but I’m to damn busy, so therefore I haven’t read anything other than your titles. I have however listened to many, including The Last Kingdom series in its entirety. I love your wonderful characters and Uhtred’s story is an exciting adventure. It has distracted several me into burning supper or letting a cow, meant to be kept penned, slip by…. I don’t watch much tv and I despise social media. I tried Facebook and I have to confess it does have some good points but all too often left me feeling like my favorite Uncle Kyle. He’s a truly grumpy and often outright unfriendly old hermit. I love him, he’s one of my favorite people even if he is angry with me at the moment. I had a sick cow dying and he came over to look at her. He made an angry comment about how the man I had bought her from had ripped me off. His anger was caused by the belief the cow was so old she was missing half her teeth. Well I hadn’t noticed that so I went out to look again. Her gums were almost white and pulled back from her teeth but the teeth themselves looked as strong as any I had seen and I had this sinking feeling that my uncle, a man who has lived his entire life in the proximity to cattle, did not know that cows have no top front teeth….. I commented that scrap of knowledge a bit carefully and he vehemently denied my knowledge, although I detected a bit of doubt for a second. He was so determined for just a fraction of a second I doubted myself. But I remembered all the baby calves I’ve bottle feed and the pet milk cows I’ve fed left over cake and pasta to and knew I was right and he was wrong. My husband gave him a ride home and Chet said the minute they were headed down the driveway, Uncle was on his phone looking it up and made the comment he owed me an apology. I have not heard that apology. We could have made peace but he got in a feud with a man I’m friendly to. On hearing his rant, I refused to join the feud and when he got mad, I lost my temper and told him I had already bee to junior high and didn’t feel any need to join his hissy junior high girl fight. He has not forgiven me….. Oh well, it’s funny I guess.

Even my husband has grudgingly found himself engrossed…. I’m still waiting for him to listen about the mouse and the battle cry in her honor. He’ll enjoy that.

I have one book left of the Arthur trilogy, I’m so delighted that Jonathan Keeble is the narrator for my audible account. He did 3 of the first 4 Kingdom books and that he didn’t do the entire Kingdom series is the only complaint I have. I also started the Sharpe series and was very excited but there are so many missing I’ve decided to wait…. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge……

Anyway, all I wanted was to give you thanks and well wishes. You’re a gentleman and a scholar.

Once again, Merry Christmas and may your 2021 be happy, healthy and successful in any of your endeavors!

Thank you,

Lindsey Wehr

Sorry for pestering you again. I’m sure you’ve much better things to be doing but, I realized I was wrong. I have a huge complaint. Why couldn’t you make Pyrlig immortal. Couldn’t you make him appear in every novel. I love Steapa and Finnan and Clapper and etc etc etc but none are as loved by me as Pyrlig. I mean even if you put his face in a cloud Monty Python style, following Uhtred about as his conscience or some corny thing…. I resent the disappearance of Pyrlig.

Lindsey Wehr