Unaddressed Letters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Unaddressed Letters, credited to Anonymous; Frank Athelstane Swettenham, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Unaddressed Letters by Anonymous; Frank Athelstane Swettenham. Read in English by Eva Davis; Nemo; Amy Gramour “I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with these few words:—“What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship, and because, when you come to read them, you will seek to grasp, in these apparent confidences, an inner meaning that to the end will elude you. If you think others, not the many but the few, might find here any answer to their unuttered questionings, any fellowship of sympathy in those experiences which are the milestones of our lives, then use the letters as you will, but without my name. I shall have gone, and the knowledge of my name would make no one either wiser or happier.” The writer was, by trade, a diplomatist; by inclination, a sportsman with literary and artistic tastes; by force of circumstances he was a student of many characters, and in some sense a cynic. He was also a traveler—not a great traveler, but he knew a good deal of Europe, a little of America, much of India and the further East. He spent some time in this neighborhood, and was much interested in the country and its people. There is an Eastern atmosphere about many of the letters, and he made no secret of the fact that he was fascinated by the glamour of the lands of sunshine. He died very suddenly by misadventure, and, even to me, his packet of letters came rather as a revelation. - Summary by Frank Athelstane Swettenham

Recording facts

• Recording title: Unaddressed Letters
• Author credits: Anonymous; Frank Athelstane Swettenham
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 7:10:22

Catalogue topics

• India
• correspondence
• tiger
• malaysia
• mongoose
• englishman

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - PREFACE — 3:47
2. 01 - THE HILL OF SOLITUDE — 6:53
3. 02 - OF WORSHIP — 9:31
4. 03 - WEST AND EAST — 10:04
5. 04 - A CLEVER MONGOOSE — 13:38
6. 05 - A BLUE DAY — 13:57
7. 06 - OF LOVE, IN FICTION — 7:55
8. 07 - THE JINGLING COIN — 19:08
9. 08 - A STRANGE SUNSET — 9:30
10. 09 - OF LETTER-WRITING — 5:48
11. 10 - AT A FUNERAL — 13:07
12. 11 - OF CHANGE AND DECAY — 23:02
13. 12 - DAUGHTERS AND DESPOTISM — 14:11
14. 13 - HER FIANCÉ — 11:00
15. 14 - BY THE SEA — 12:20
16. 15 - AN ILLUMINATION — 9:44
17. 16 - OF DEATH, IN FICTION — 11:07
18. 17 - A HAND AT ÉCARTÉ — 8:17
19. 18 - THE GENTLE ART OF VEERING WITH THE WIND — 9:36
20. 19 - A REJOINDER — 10:04
21. 20 - OF IMPORTUNITY — 11:41
22. 21 - OF COINCIDENCES — 10:08
23. 22 - OF A COUNTRY-HOUSE CUSTOM — 9:36
24. 23 - A MERE LIE — 12:24

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