Index

Abelard, Peter (i)

address:

own (i)

recipient’s (i)

Aherne, Cecelia (i)

Alexandra, Czarina (i)

Austen, Jane (i)

Babylon, ancient (i)

Ballou, Sullivan (i)

Balzac, Honoré de (i)

Banting, William (i), (ii)

Barrie, J.M. (i)

Beethoven, Ludwig van (i)

Behn, Aphra (i)

Bernhardt, Sarah (i)

Bibesco, Elizabeth (i)

Bible, epistles in (i)

Bion, Nicholas (i)

Blyton, Enid (i)

Boleyn, Anne (i)

Bowie, David (i)

Bradford Pioneer (i)

Britain, early mail system in (i)

Brooke, Frances (i)

Byatt, A.S. (i)

Byron, Lord (i)

Carr, John Dickson (i)

Catherine of Aragon (i)

Catherine II (‘the Great’) (i)

Cavell, Edith (i)

chain letters, see letters, chain

Chamberlain, Neville (i)

Chandler, Raymond (i)

China, ancient (i)

Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre (i)

Christie, Agatha (i)

Churchill (née Hozier), Clementine (i), (ii)

Churchill, Winston (i), (ii)

Clary, Julian (i)

close of letter (valediction) (i)

alternative (i)

Clouzot, Georges (i)

Cook, Rev. T (i)

Cross, David (i)

Curie, Marie (i)

Curtis, Steven (i)

Darwin, Charles (i)

date (i)

Dead Letter Office (US) (i)

‘Dear’, use of (i)

Dear Me (i)

‘Dear’, use of (i)

Diana, Princess of Wales (i)

Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’) (i)

Douglas, John Sholto (Marquess of Queensberry) (i)

Egypt, ancient (i), (ii)

Einstein, Albert (i), (ii), (iii)

Eliot, George (i)

Elizabeth II, birthday messages sent by (i)

Elizabeth the Queen Mother (i)

Elton John AIDS Foundation (i)

emails (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

advice on using (netiquette) (i)

chain letters via (i), (ii)

rise of (i)

Erasmus (i)

farewell letters, see letters of farewell

Feldman, David (i)

Ferrante, Prof. Joan (i)

Feuchtwanger, Lion (i)

Fiennes, Sir Ranulph (i)

Forster, E.M. (i)

Franklin, Benjamin (i)

Friedman, Carl (i)

Friedman, Lise (i)

Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne (i)

Galileo (i)

Genghis Khan (i)

George V (i)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (i)

Gray, Cynthia (i)

Great Plague of London (i)

Haas, Johannes (i)

Hammurabi (i)

Harry, Debbie (i)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (i)

Héloise (i), (ii)

Henderson, Bobby (i)

Henry VIII (i), (ii)

Hervey, John (i)

Hildegard of Bingen (i)

Hill, Rowland (i), (ii)

Hobbhouse, Emily (i)

Holderlin, Friedrich (i)

Hubbard, Elbert (i)

Iggy Pop (i)

ink:

in fountain pens (i)

scented (i)

James, Henry (i)

James, P.D. (i)

Jefferson, Thomas (i)

Joan of Arc (i)

Johnson, Samuel (i)

Josephine, Empress (i), (ii)

Keats, John (i)

King, Martin Luther (i), (ii), (iii)

King, Stephen (i)

King’s Post (i)

Kostova, Elizabeth (i)

Kuyuk Khan (i)

La Plante, Lynda (i)

Laclos, Choderlos de (i)

Larsson, Stieg (i)

Lawrence, D.H. (i), (ii)

letter-writing:

advantages of (i)

art of (i)

basics of (i)

beginnings of (i)

great age of (i)

materials for (i)

not, and why (i)

to pen pals (i)

setting tone for (i)

as therapy (i), (ii)

letters:

‘Dear John’ (i)

defined (i)

different names for (i)

etymology of (i)

formal, setting out (i)

in literature (i), (ii)

and pen pals (i)

postscripts in (i)

privacy of (i)

round-robin (i)

sample layout of (i)

to 16-year-old self, advice in (i)

storing and preserving (i)

types of (i)

use of ‘Dear’ in (i), (ii)

letters, chain (i)

letters of complaint (i)

example of (i)

letters of condolence (i)

Eliot’s (i)

example of (i)

how to write (i)

letters of dismissal (i)

letters to editors (i)

from ‘Disgusted’, of Tunbridge Wells (i)

tips on writing (i)

letters of farewell (i)

to the dead (i)

from the dying (i)

while awaiting execution (i)

letters from history (i)

on Christianity (i)

on diets (i)

on Great Plague (i)

from King, Martin Luther (i)

on Letters of Note blog (i)

love letters (i)

from medieval women (epistolae) (i)

Napoleon-Louis XVIII (i)

pivotal moments noted in (i)

on Rome (i)

on science (i)

on virtues of women (i)

as warning (i), (ii)

letters in literature (i)

Behn (i)

biblical (epistolary) (i)

eighteenth-century (i)

horror (i)

modern (i)

novels (epistolary) (i), (ii)

of Portuguese nun (i)

from Satan (i)

in Shakespeare (i)

letters, love (i)

Abelard-Héloise (i)

advice on writing (i)

advice on writing, medieval (i)

Henry VIII-Anne Boleyn (i)

from history (i)

on ‘Juliet’s balcony’, Verona (i)

mystery missive (i)

Napoleon-Josephine (i), (ii)

oldest Valentine (i)

online collection of (i)

openings to (salutation) (i)

Pelham-Pelham (i)

and pet names (i)

to strangers (i)

in wartime (i), (ii)

Wilde-Douglas (i)

Letters of Note blog (i)

letters, open (i)

famous (i), (ii)

to a Nazi (i)

Zola’s (i)

letters, poison-pen (i)

handwriting as evidence in (i)

in literature and film (i)

letters of request (i)

tips on writing (i)

letters of resignation (i)

example of (i)

letters of thanks:

formal (i)

for gifts (i)

personalizing (i)

reason for (i)

Letters to Juliet (Friedman, Friedman) (i)

letters in wartime (i)

American Civil War (i)

Boer War (i)

Crimean War (i)

Franco-Prussian War (i)

and POWs (i)

Vietnam War (i)

World War I (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

World War II (i), (ii)

Lindbergh kidnapping (i)

Love Letter Collection (i)

love letters, see letters, love

Lupino, Stanley (i)

Lytton, Edward Bulwer (i)

MacDonald, John A. (i)

Magrs, Paul (i)

mail system (i)

American, early (i)

British, early (i)

earliest (i)

King’s Post (i)

by navigable waters (i)

Penny Post (i)

pigeon post (i)

by pony (US) (i)

by rail (US, early) (i)

Mansfield, Katherine (i)

Marie Antoinette (i)

Mary, Queen of Scots (i)

Mauryan Empire (i)

Miller, Henry (i)

Mills, Hayley (i)

Milne, CSM James (i)

Mongol Empire (i), (ii)

Moore, Thomas (i)

More, Sir Thomas (i)

Murry, John Middleton (i)

Napoleon I (i), (ii)

Nathan, George Jean (i)

Nelson, Horatio (i)

netiquette (i)

Nietzsche, Friedrich (i)

Nightingale, Florence (i)

open letters, see letters, open

Oxford Book of Letters, The (i), (ii)

Parnell, Charles Stewart (i)

Pasteur, Louis (i)

Paston, Margery (i)

Pelham, Sir John (i)

Pelham, Lady (i)

pen pals (i)

Penny Black (i)

Penny Post (i)

pens (i)

ballpoint (i)

fountain (i)

quill (i)

Pepys, Samuel (i)

Perkins, Sue (i)

pet names (i)

philately (i)

pigeon post (i)

Pisan, Christine de (i)

Pizarro, Hernando (i)

Plath, Sylvia (i)

Pleasures of Staying in Touch, The (Williams) (i)

Pliny the Younger (i)

Poincaré, Henri (i)

poison-pen letters, see letters, poison-pen

Pony Express (i)

post, see mail system

postcards, long-awaited (i)

postmen, in movies (i)

postscripts (i)

famous examples of (i)

Proust, Marcel (i)

Raleigh, Sir Walter (i), (ii)

Renouard de Villayer, Jean-Jacques (i)

Reuters (i)

Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne (i)

Richardson, Samuel (i), (ii), (iii)

Rome, ancient (i), (ii)

Office of Letters in (i)

Roosevelt, Franklin (i)

Ross, Jonathan (i)

round-robin letters (i)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (i)

royal birthday messages (i)

as telegrams (i)

Russell, Bertrand (i)

Russell, Ken (i)

St Jerome (i)

St Paul (i)

salutation (i)

in love letters (i)

Sassoon, Siegfried (i), (ii)

Sayers, Dorothy (i)

Scott, Capt. Robert (i)

sealing wax (i)

Secondat, Charles de (i)

Shaffer, Mary Ann (i)

Shakespeare, William (i)

Shaw, George Bernard (i), (ii)

Shelley, Mary (i)

Shriver, Lionel (i)

signature (i)

stamps (i)

collecting (i)

first (i)

monarch’s portrait on (i)

Penny Black (i)

world’s most expensive (i)

Stanley Gibbons Ltd (i)

Stoker, Bram (i)

Sturgeon, Theodore (i)

telegrams (i)

notable (i)

for royal birthday message (i)

Teller, Edward (i)

Theroux, Phyllis (i)

Thompson, Emma (i)

Tichborne, Chidiock (i)

Tunbridge Wells Advertiser (i)

Twain, Mark (i), (ii)

Universal Letter Writer, The (Cook) (i)

USA, mail system in, history of (i)

valediction (closing) (i)

alternative (i)

Valentine’s message, oldest (i)

Walker, Alice (i)

Walpole, Horace (i), (ii)

Waterman, Lewis (i)

Waugh, Evelyn (i)

Western Union (i)

Wharton, Edith (i), (ii)

Whitman, Walt (i)

Wilde, Oscar (i)

Williams, Jennifer (i)

Wolfe, Gene (i)

Wong, Asia (i)

Woolf, Virginia (i), (ii), (iii)

World War I:

pigeon post in (i)

telegrams used in (i)

Wright brothers (i)

Wright, Richard B. (i)

writing materials (i)

choosing (i)

Zola, Emile (i)