Dear Mr. Cornwell,

Greetings! I’m an archivist and aspiring writer currently researching a novel while also grinding along on some short stories. After finishing 1984, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and other heavy reads I was ready for an adventure and overjoyed to find Sharpe on Audible. I’m not far enough along to say any more but your attention to certain details in the first chapter alone have my expectations raised high.

And I am also a collector of typewriters. I’m curious as to what make and model you used for Sharpe’s Eagle? I like to collect pictures of writers and their machines for a friend of mine, Richard Polt, who has a gallery on his website The Classic Typewriter Page. I’m a young whippersnapper of 32 but I prefer typewriters because of a history of joint problems.

I’d like to meet you at a convention one day and talk history but for now I’ll sign myself your newest fan,

Taylor