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A LETTER BOOK
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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