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THE letters in this book are re-printed from the Morning Post, to the Proprietor and Editor of which newspaper the author owes his thanks for the permission to reproduce them here.DEDICATIONTo Lord LucasMY DEAR BRON,I WISH to begin this bundle of "Dead Letters," collected from the Dead Letter Office of the World, with a living letter to you.These letters are not meant to be either historical documents or historical studies or aids to the understanding of history, or learning of any kind with or without tears. They are the fruits of imagination rather than of research. The word research is not ...
Chapters (322)
- DEAD LETTERS
- DEDICATION To Lord Lucas
- CONTENTS
- DEAD LETTERS FROM THE MYCENAE PAPERS
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus (Two years later)
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus (Two months later)
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus (Three months later)
- Helen to Clytaemnestra (Ten years later)
- Clytaemnestra to Helen
- Penelope to Odysseus
- Helen to Clytaemnestra
- Agamemnon to Clytaemnestra
- Odysseus to Penelope
- Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
- WITH THE CARTHAGINIAN FLEET, 216 B.C.
- Letter from a Carthaginian Civilian to a Friend in Carthage
- LESBIA ILLA
- CLEOPATRA AT ROME
- Letter from Charmian, at Alexandria, to her friend Chloe, at Baiae, 44 B.C.
- OVID’S BANISHMENT
- Letter from Diogenes, a Sculptor, to a friend in Athens
- THE CAPREAE REGATTA, A.D. 27
- Letter from Sabina to Chloe
- MESSALINA
- Letter from Pallas, Librarian to the Emperor Claudius, to a friend
- NERO INTERVIEWED ROME, A.D. 64
- Letter from a Greek Traveller to his friend in Athens
- MARCUS AURELIUS AT LANUVIUM
- Letter from Celsus to Lucian
- THE CAMELOT JOUSTS
- Guinevere to King Arthur
- King Arthur to Guinevere
- Sir Lancelot to Guinevere
- Guinevere to King Arthur
- Guinevere to Lancelot
- Guinevere to Iseult
- Iseult to Guinevere
- Guinevere to Lancelot
- KING LEAR’S DAUGHTER
- Letter from Goneril, Daughter of King Lear, to her sister Regan
- LADY MACBETH’S TROUBLE
- Letter from Lady Macbeth to Lady Macduff
- AT THE COURT OF KING CLAUDIUS
- From a Player’s Letter
- ROMEO AND ROSALINE
- Letter from Rosaline to her friend Olivia
- A FIRST NIGHT
- Letter from Jean-Antoine de Binet to a Friend in Paris, July 20, 1602
- THE POET, THE PLAYER, AND THE LITERARY AGENT
- Letter from Mr. Nichols, Literary Agent, to Lord Bacon
- Letter from Mr. Nichols to Lord Bacon
- Letter from Mr. Nichols to Lord Bacon
- Letter from Lord Bacon to Mr. Nichols
- Letter from Lord Bacon to Mr. Nichols
- Letter from Lord Bacon to Mr. Nichols
- BATH, 1663
- Letter from a Frenchman to a Friend in Paris
- PETER THE GREAT
- Letter from an English Architect
- “HAMLET” AND DR. DODD
- Letter from a Frenchman, translated from the French
- HERR MÜLLER
- Letter from Sir Richard C—— to his Cousin
- HEINE IN PARIS
- Fragment of an unpublished letter from Lady G—— to Lord C——
- SMITH MAJOR
- Letter from a Private Schoolboy to a Public Schoolboy
- FROM SATURDAY TO MONDAY
- Letter from a Frenchwoman to an English Friend in Italy
- A RUSSIAN SAILOR
- Letter from a Russian Sailor to his Brother
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