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Nonfiction Glad to get back home again THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER Edited by William Anderson 379 pp. HarperCollins Reviewed by Diane Diekman “The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is the final collection of unpublished writing from the author of the Little House books,” writes editor William Anderson in the introduction. “There no longer remains a well of her words left to print.” This book consists of excerpts of more than 400 letters written by Laura Ingalls Wilder over six decades. Anderson, author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (1992), collected and edited them. The letters are grouped into six chapters, with titles such as “The Farmer’s Wife (1894-1920)” and “Star of the Children’s Department (1937-1943).” Chronologically presented, they sometimes are preceded by explanatory notes from the editor. Other than correcting spelling and erroneous dates, Anderson says the letters “appear in this book essentially as she wrote them, leaving intact occasion...