Cleveland Amory's, The Letters

09/28/18 • 8 min

Phebe Phillips shares with you a few letter about cats. After Cleveland Amory wrote his first book, The Cat Who Came for Christmas, about the stray he rescued, later naming Polar Bear, he received a lot of letters from cat owners. Two of his favorite letters were about a cat named Jose—taken from Amory's Cat-Smartness file, and a cat named Arthur, taken from his Siamese file.

This excerpt is taken from Compleat Cat, a compilation of Amory's three books. It picks up on page 302 in the second chapter, titled Cat Power.

This excerpt is taken from Compleat Cat, a compilation of Amory's three books. It picks up on page 302 in the second chapter, titled Cat Power.

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