A Letter Book

A Letter Book

George Saintsbury, English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur (1845-1933)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- Introduction The History And Art Of Letter Writing

- Ancient History

- Letters In English-before 1700

- The Eighteenth Century

- Nineteenth Century Letters Early

- Nineteenth Century Letters Later

- Some Special Kinds Of Letter

- Conclusion

- Appendix To Introduction

- Greek Letters.-synesius

- Latin Letters.-pliny

- Letter Of The Dark Ages Sidonius Apollinaris

- Early Mediaeval Letter

- Footnotes

- English Letters

- The Pastons

- Footnotes

- Roger Ascham

- Footnotes

- Lady Mary Sidney

- Footnotes

- George Clifford Earl Of Cumberland

- Footnotes

- John Donne

- Footnotes

- James Howell

- Footnotes

- John Evelyn

- Footnotes

- Dorothy Osborne

- Footnotes

- Jonathan Swift

- Footnotes

- Lady Mary Wortley-montagu

- Footnotes

- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl Of Chesterfield

- George Ballard

- Footnotes

- Thomas Gray

- Footnotes

- Horace Walpole

- Footnotes

- Tobias George Smollett

- William Cowper

- Footnotes

- Sydney Smith

- Footnotes

- Sir Walter Scott

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

- Footnotes

- Robert Southey

- Footnotes

- Charles Lamb

- Footnotes

- George Gordon, Lord Byron

- Footnotes

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

- John Keats

- The Carlyles-thomas

- Jane Welsh

- Footnotes

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

- Footnotes

- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

- Footnotes

- Edward Fitzgerald

- Footnotes

- Frances Anne Kemble

- Footnote

- William Makepeace Thackeray

- Charles Dickens

- Footnotes

- Charles Kingsley

- John Ruskin

- Domestic Servants Sonship And Slavery

- Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

- Footnotes