A Letter Book

About this eBook

Author

Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933

Title

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

Credits

Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English letters

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31072

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31072

Release Date

January 25, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note
2. 2.A LETTER BOOK — A LETTER BOOK — SELECTED WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON THE HISTORY AND ART OF LETTER-WRITING — BY
3. 3.GEORGE SAINTSBURY
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.I — ANCIENT HISTORY
7. 7.II — LETTERS IN ENGLISH—BEFORE 1700
8. 8.III — THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
9. 9.IV — NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. EARLY
10. 10.V — NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS. LATER
11. 11.VI — SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF LETTER
12. 12.VII — CONCLUSION
13. 13.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:
14. 14.THE PASTONS. Fifteenth Century — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568) — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.LADY MARY SIDNEY (? [81] -1586) — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.GEORGE CLIFFORD EARL OF CUMBERLAND (1558-1605) — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.JOHN DONNE (1573-1631) — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.JAMES HOWELL (1593-1666) — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627-1695) — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU (1689-1762) — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)
25. 25.GEORGE BALLARD (1706-1755) — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797) — [AND W. M. THACKERAY]. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771)
29. 29.WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.SYDNEY SMITH (1771-1845) — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)
32. 32.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843) — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) — FOOTNOTES:
36. 36.PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
37. 37.JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
38. 38.THE CARLYLES—THOMAS (1795-1881) and JANE WELSH (1801-1866) — FOOTNOTES:
39. 39.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859) — FOOTNOTES:
40. 40.THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)
41. 41.ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) — FOOTNOTES:
42. 42.EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) — FOOTNOTES:
43. 43.FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893) — FOOTNOTES:
44. 44.WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)
45. 45.CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) — FOOTNOTES:
46. 46.CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875)
47. 47.JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)
48. 48.ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850-1894) — FOOTNOTES: — BY THE SAME AUTHOR — The Peace of the Augustans
49. 49.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 — Transcriber's Notes

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