Fan mail

In Competition No. 3102 you were invited to submit a fan letter from one well-known person from the field of fact or fiction to another.
 
Frank McDonald’s Lady Macbeth fist-bumps Nicola Sturgeon: ‘My dearest Nicola there is no need/ For me to pour my spirits in thine ear;/ Already you excel me in your lust/ To seize the Scottish crown…’. Ben Hale imagines Emperor Palpatine high-fiving Jean Claude-Juncker: ‘I wanted to express my admiration from afar (very afar) of your skill at knitting together a number of different systems under one central body politic…’; and Sylvia Fairley’s Mrs Malaprop writes admiringly to Dr Roget: ‘I would like to repress my delight at your new fabrication, the stegosaurus…’
 
Equally enjoyable submissions came  from David Silverman (René Descartes to the Spice Girls), Rob Stuart (Peppa Pig to Big Brother) and Frank Upton (Ivy Compton-Burnett to Edgar Rice Burroughs).

The winners, printed below, are rewarded with £30 each.