A Letter Book

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Saintsbury George. A Letter Book

A Letter Book

Table of Contents

PREFACE

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)

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ENGLISH LETTERS

THE PASTONS. Fifteenth Century

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ROGER ASCHAM (1515–1568)

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LADY MARY SIDNEY (?[81]−1586)

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GEORGE CLIFFORD EARL OF CUMBERLAND (1558–1605)

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JOHN DONNE (1573–1631)

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JAMES HOWELL (1593–1666)

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JOHN EVELYN (1620–1706)

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DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627–1695)

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JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745)

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LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU (1689–1762)

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PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF. CHESTERFIELD (1694–1773)

GEORGE BALLARD (1706–1755)

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THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771)

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HORACE WALPOLE (1717–1797)

[AND W. M. THACKERAY]

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TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721–1771)

WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800)

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SYDNEY SMITH (1771–1845)

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SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834)

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ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774–1843)

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CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834)

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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824)

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822)

JOHN KEATS (1795–1821)

THE CARLYLES—THOMAS (1795–1881) and. JANE WELSH (1801–1866)

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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800–1859)

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THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803–1849)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–1861)

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EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809–1883)

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FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809–1893)

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811–1863)

CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)

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CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819–1875)

JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850–1894)

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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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George Saintsbury

Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing

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JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU (1689-1762)

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