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- A LETTER BOOK
- SELECTED WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER-WRITING BY
- GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER WRITING
- I
- ANCIENT HISTORY
- II
- LETTERS IN ENGLISH—BEFORE 1700
- III
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- IV
- NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. EARLY
- V
- NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. LATER
- VI
- SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF LETTER
- VII
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION
- I GREEK LETTERS.—SYNESIUS (c. 375-430)
- Letter CVIII. (to his Brother)
- Letter CXXIV
- LATIN LETTERS.—PLINY (62-114)
- Plinius to his Asinius Gallus—Health
- LETTER OF THE "DARK" AGES SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS (431?-482-4)
- Book III. Letter III Sidonius to his Ecdicius—Health
- EARLY MEDIAEVAL LETTER (Twelfth Century)
- FOOTNOTES:
- ENGLISH LETTERS THE PASTONS. Fifteenth Century
- FOOTNOTES:
- ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568)
- FOOTNOTES:
- LADY MARY SIDNEY (?[81]-1586)
- FOOTNOTES:
- GEORGE CLIFFORD EARL OF CUMBERLAND (1558-1605)
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN DONNE (1573-1631)
- FOOTNOTES:
- JAMES HOWELL (1593-1666)
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706)
- FOOTNOTES:
- DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627-1695)
- FOOTNOTES:
- JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
- FOOTNOTES:
- LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU (1689-1762)
- FOOTNOTES:
- PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)
- GEORGE BALLARD (1706-1755)
- FOOTNOTES:
- THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
- FOOTNOTES:
- HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797)
- [AND W. M. THACKERAY].
- FOOTNOTES:
- TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771)
- WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SYDNEY SMITH (1771-1845)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
- FOOTNOTES:
- ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)
- FOOTNOTES:
- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
- FOOTNOTES:
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
- JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
- THE CARLYLES—THOMAS (1795-1881) and JANE WELSH (1801-1866)
- FOOTNOTES:
- THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859)
- FOOTNOTES:
- THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)
- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
- FOOTNOTES:
- EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)
- FOOTNOTES:
- FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893)
- FOOTNOTES:
- WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)
- CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875)
- JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)
- ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850-1894)
- FOOTNOTES:
- The Peace of the Augustans
- A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a Place of Rest and Refreshment
- Handbooks of English Literature
- Edited by the late J. W. HALES, M.A. Professor of English Literature, King's College, London
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