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

CONTENTS

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Preface	v
Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing	1
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:
Greek Letters—Synesius	100
(i) To his Brother—Preparations to meet Raiders.
(ii) To Hypatia—Longing but unable to come to her.
Latin Letters—Pliny	102
Accepts a Brief for a Lady.
Letters of the "Dark" Ages—Sidonius Apollinaris	105
The exploits of Ecdicius.
Early Mediaeval (Twelfth Century) Letter	108
Duchess of Burgundy to King Louis VII.—Matchmaking.
ENGLISH LETTERS
The "Paston" Letters	111
1. A Channel Fight.
2. Margery is Willing.
Roger Ascham	116
3. "Up the Rhine."
4. Nostalgia for Cambridge.
Lady Mary Sidney	122
5. Have you no room at Court?
George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland	125
6. A Death-bed letter.
John Donne	129
7-10. Letters to Magdalen Lady Herbert.
James Howell	135
11. "Long Melford for Ever."
12. The White Bird.
John Evelyn	139
13. How to take care of ears, eyes and brains.
Dorothy Osborne	146
14. A discourse of Flying, and several other things.
15. Some testimonies of kindness.
Jonathan Swift	154
16. Letter-hunger.
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu	159
17. Directions for running away with her.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield	164
18. Some manners that make a gentleman.
George Ballard	173
19. The wickedness of Reviewers.
Thomas Gray	180
20. Romanities and Plain English.
21. Kent, Rousseau, Lord Chatham, etc.
Horace Walpole (and W. M. Thackeray)	187
22. What Horace wrote.
23. What Horace might have written.
Tobias George Smollett	195
24. Of Johnson, and Johnson's Frank—To Wilkes.
William Cowper	197
25. About a Greenhouse.
Sydney Smith	201
26. Vegetation, stagnation, and assassination.
27. His "hotel." Hasty judgments deprecated.
Sir Walter Scott	206
28. Authors and Morals.
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