Dead Letters

About this eBook

Author

Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945

Title

Dead letters

Original Publication

United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Letters in literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71285

Release Date

July 28, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DEAD LETTERS — DEDICATION To Lord Lucas
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.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
4. 4.WITH THE CARTHAGINIAN FLEET, 216 B.C. — Letter from a Carthaginian Civilian to a Friend in Carthage
5. 5.LESBIA ILLA
6. 6.CLEOPATRA AT ROME — Letter from Charmian, at Alexandria, to her friend Chloe, at Baiae, 44 B.C.
7. 7.OVID’S BANISHMENT — Letter from Diogenes, a Sculptor, to a friend in Athens
8. 8.THE CAPREAE REGATTA, A.D. 27 — Letter from Sabina to Chloe
9. 9.MESSALINA — Letter from Pallas, Librarian to the Emperor Claudius, to a friend
10. 10.NERO INTERVIEWED ROME, A.D. 64 — Letter from a Greek Traveller to his friend in Athens
11. 11.MARCUS AURELIUS AT LANUVIUM — Letter from Celsus to Lucian
12. 12.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
13. 13.KING LEAR’S DAUGHTER — Letter from Goneril, Daughter of King Lear, to her sister Regan
14. 14.LADY MACBETH’S TROUBLE — Letter from Lady Macbeth to Lady Macduff
15. 15.AT THE COURT OF KING CLAUDIUS — From a Player’s Letter
16. 16.ROMEO AND ROSALINE — Letter from Rosaline to her friend Olivia
17. 17.A FIRST NIGHT — Letter from Jean-Antoine de Binet to a Friend in Paris, July 20, 1602
18. 18.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
19. 19.BATH, 1663 — Letter from a Frenchman to a Friend in Paris
20. 20.PETER THE GREAT — Letter from an English Architect
21. 21.“HAMLET” AND DR. DODD — Letter from a Frenchman, translated from the French
22. 22.HERR MÜLLER — Letter from Sir Richard C—— to his Cousin
23. 23.HEINE IN PARIS — Fragment of an unpublished letter from Lady G—— to Lord C——
24. 24.SMITH MAJOR — Letter from a Private Schoolboy to a Public Schoolboy
25. 25.FROM SATURDAY TO MONDAY — Letter from a Frenchwoman to an English Friend in Italy
26. 26.A RUSSIAN SAILOR — Letter from a Russian Sailor to his Brother
27. 27.Transcriber’s Notes

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