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Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into the lives of others--their pledges of love and their sharp remonstrances, their thoughts on war and peace and the gossip of the day, their intellectual travels and idle chatter. It is partly this guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes The Oxford Book of Lettersso compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicans to poets, from the famous to the unknown.
Editors Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode have chosen a remarkable selection of correspondents both educated and barely literate, with styles that range from polished and witty to stumbling and artless, but who all share a gift for letters that display an immediacy and intimacy not shared by any other form of writing. Here is John Adams to his wife, Abigail, in what we know to be a harried April of 1776 ("You justly complain of my short Letters, but the critical State of Things and the Multiplicity of Avocations must plead my Excuse--"); Benjamin Disraeli, confiding to Lady Bradford the secret of his purchase of the Suez Canal for England ("not one of the least events of our generation"); Charles Dickens to his son, Henry, regarding finances ("You know how hard I work for what I get, and I think you know that I never had money help from any human creature after I was a child"); Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, a young college instructor, with writing advice ("You can't be creative in all directions at once. Freshman English would suit me fine. I'd make them diagram sentences"); and an indignant A.T. Harris to the head of the Atlantic City Railroad in 1896 ("On the 15th yore trane that was going to Atlanta ran over mi bull...yore ruddy trane took a peece of hyde outer his belly between his nable and his poker at least fute square"). Among the most moving letters are those from emigrants to America, Australia, and South Africa, describing the hardships they endured and the resolution with which they faced their new worlds--we read Anna Francis's letter to her sister, detailing her dashed hopes for happiness as an emigre in South Africa ("And is this the place in which I am to live out the remainder of my wretched existence! Forbid it heaven!"); and Rebecca Butterworth's forlorn letter to England from Arkansas, outlining a litany of disaster: stillborn children, poor crops, dire illness ("If we sell soon and the Lord spares us, we will be out in fall").
With subjects ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary, from the tragic to the hilarious, the Kermodes have included both isolated missives as well as exchanges of letters between regular correspondents, where familiarity and an ongoing saga add to the fascination. The editors provide a context for the letters, and unobtrusive notes. In an age where communication is instant and ephemeral, this volume celebrates the glory of the written word, and what may well be a dying art form.
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Table Of Contents:
Introduction xvii
Sir Antony Windsor to Lady Lisle
26 March 1535 3(1)
Lord Edmund Howard to the same
1535? 4(1)
Sir Thomas More to Margaret Roper
5 July 1535 5(1)
Mary Hart to Lord Burghley
May 1573 6(1)
Sir Philip Sidney to Edmund Molyneux
31 May 1578 7(1)
John Stubbs to Lord Burghley
31 August 1580 8(1)
`Emanuel Plantagenet' to the same
27 June 1587 9(1)
Elizabeth I to James VI of Scotland
C.I February 1586/7 10(1)
--- to the same
August 1588 11(2)
--- to Lord Mountjoy
3 December 1600 13(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh to his wife
December 1603 14(2)
James Howell to Captain Thomas Porter
10 July 1623 16(2)
--- to Sir I.S.
25 May 1628 18(1)
--- to Lady Scroop
25 August 1628 19(1)
--- to Lady Cornwallis
2 June 1630 20(1)
Charles I to the Duke of Buckingham
12 July 1626 21(2)
Lord Carleton to Queen Henrietta Maria
23 August 1628 23(3)
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to the Earl of Carlisle
12 June 1630 26(1)
John Winthrop to Margaret Winthrop
9 September 1630 26(2)
Anthony Thacher to Peter Thacher
September 1635 28(5)
Joseph Kent to ---
11 March 1649 33(2)
The Earl of Derby to General Henry Ireton
July 1649 35(1)
The Duchess of Newcastle to William Cavendish
1645 35(1)
Anna Carr to Dr Symcotts
c.1650 36(1)
Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
September 1653 37(4)
Sir John Evelyn to Sir Richard Browne
14 February 1658 41(1)
--- to Dr Christopher Wiren
4 April 1665 42(1)
John Strype to his mother
October? 1662 43(3)
J. Tillison to Dr Sancroft
14 September 1665 46(1)
Mary Evelyn to her son
c.1673 47(1)
Christopher Hatton to his brother
25 May 1676 48(2)
Cotton Mather to John Higginson
1682 50(1)
Sir James Dick to Mr Ellies
9 May 1682 50(3)
Sir George Etherege to the Duke of Buckingham
March 1687? 53(5)
Lady Mary Wortley Montague to Edward Wortley Montagu
c.26 July 1712 58(2)
--- to the same
c.24 September 1714 60(1)
--- to Lady ---
16 August 1716 61(1)
--- to Lady ---
1 April 1717 62(2)
--- to Lady Mar
23 June 1727 64(2)
--- to Lady Pomfret
March 1739 66(2)
Jonathan Swift to Lord Oxford
21 November 1713 68(1)
--- to Robert Percival
3 January 1730 69(2)
--- to John Gay
4 May 1732 71(2)
Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift
5 December 1732 73(2)
Thomas Sheridan to the same
15 July 1735 75(1)
--- to the same
13 August 1735 76(1)
Mrs Whiteway to the Earl of Orrery
22 November 1742 77(2)
Deane Swift to the same
4 April 1744 79(1)
Alexander Pope to Martha Blount
November 1714 80(2)
--- to Hugh Bethell
19 March 1744 82(1)
Lord Hervey to Stephen Fox
7 September 1730 83(1)
--- to the same
14 November 1732 84(2)
Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole
31 October 1734 86(1)
--- to James Brown
24 September 1761 87(3)
Horace Walpole to Richard West
27 February 1740 90(2)
--- to Horace Mann
21 August 1746 92(3)
--- to George Montagu
13 November 1760 95(2)
--- to the same
2 February 1762 97(1)
--- to Lady Ossory
8 April 1779 98(3)
--- to the same
3 June 1780 101(3)
Samuel Richardson, `From a mother to a daughter'
1741 104(1)
---, `From a gentleman to a lady'
1741 105(1)
---, `From a country gentleman to his brother'
1741 106(2)
David Garrick to the Countess of Burlington
21 July 1755 108(2)
--- to the Marquis of Hartington
2 August 1755 110(1)
--- to Peter Garrick
6 November 1762 111(1)
George Burton to William Stukeley
11 August 1755 112(2)
Lady Sarah Lennox to Lady Susan Fox Strangways
7 July 1761 114(1)
--- to Lady Susan O'Brien
9 June 1766 115(5)
--- to the same
February 1779 120(3)
--- to the same
29 September 1815 123(1)
Lady Susan O'Brien, A note on changes between 1760 and 1818
1818 124(3)
Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Bute
3 November 1762 127(1)
--- to William Strahan
7 March 1774 128(1)
--- to James Macpherson
20 January 1775 129(1)
--- to Hester Thrale
27 October 1777 129(1)
--- to James Boswell
14 March 1781 130(1)
--- to Hester Thrale
19 June 1783 131(2)
James Boswell to Samuel Johnson
30 September 1764 133(1)
--- to William Temple
8 February 1768 134(3)
Sir Joshua Reynolds to James Barry
1769 137(1)
--- to Valentine Green
1 June 1783 138(1)
--- to James Boswell
7 July 1785 139(1)
Captain W. G. Evelyn to Mrs Leveson Gower
19 August 1775 140(2)
Abigail Adams to John Adams
31 March 1776 142(2)
John Adams to Abigail Adams
14 April 1776 144(2)
Erasmus Darwin to Anna Seward and reply
7, 8 September 1780 146(4)
The Prince of Wales to Prince Frederick
17 July 1781 150(4)
Prince Frederick to the Prince of Wales
30 July 1781 154(1)
The Prince of Wales to Princess Caroline
30 April 1796 155(1)
Benjamin Franklin to Sir Joseph Banks
27 July 1783 156(1)
--- to the same
30 November 1783 156(1)
Vincenzo Lunardi to King George III
16 September 1784 157(4)
John Newton to the Earl of Dartmouth
22 September 1784 161(1)
Gilbert White to Mrs Barker
19 October 1784 162(2)
Queen Charlotte Sophia to Prince William
August 1785 164(1)
Sir William Hamilton to the Prince of Wales
12 November 1788 165(1)
Edmund Burke to Sir Philip Francis
20 February 1790 166(4)
Richard Burke to the King of France
6 August 1791 170(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft to ---
1795 172(1)
Henrietta, Countess Bessborough, to Granville Leveson Gower
1796 173(1)
--- to the same
2 October 1805 174(2)
--- to the same
11 October 1808 176(1)
--- to the same
13 September 1811 177(1)
Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen
20 November 1800 178(3)
--- to Fanny Knight
18 November 1814 181(4)
Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton
17 February 1801 185(1)
--- to the same
1 March 1801 186(2)
Sir William Hamilton to Lady Hamilton
1802 188(1)
William Wordsworth to Sare Hutchinson
14 June 1802 189(1)
--- to Thomas De Quincey
29 July 1803 190(2)
Lady Hester Stanhope to Patrick Craufurd Bruce
c.27 June 1810 192(2)
--- to Mr Murray
2 January 1812 194(2)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to Lady Georgiana Morpeth
28 August 1810 196(1)
Fanny Burney to Esther Burney
March-June 1812 197(8)
Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Edgeworth
October 1812 205(3)
--- to the same
30 April 1831 208(6)
Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie
April 1816 214(4)
--- to Abel Moysey
15 June 1819 218(1)
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore
28 January 1817 219(2)
--- to John Murray
1 August 1819 221(6)
B. R. Haydon to John Keats
March 1817 227(1)
Sydney Smith to the Farmer's Magazine
August 1819 228(1)
--- to Lady Georgiana Morpeth
16 February 1820 229(1)
--- to John Allen
9 November 1826 230(1)
--- to Dr Henry Holland
8 June 1835 231(1)
--- to Miss Lucie Austin
22 July 1835 232(1)
--- to Mrs Austin
13 October 1842 233(1)
--- to Lady Carlisle
1 October 1844 233(1)
John Keats to P. B. Shelley
16 August 1820 234(1)
--- to Fanny Brawne
August? 1820 235(1)
--- to Charles Brown
1 November 1820 236(2)
Anna Francis to Mrs Galabin
22 January 1821 238(2)
Leigh Hunt to Joseph Severn
8 March 1821 240(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Maria Gisborne
15 August 1822 241(7)
The Chevalier de Santa Rosa to Sarah Austin
26 December 1822 248(2)
Jane Baillie Welsh to Thomas Carlyle
16 September 1823 250(1)
Thomas Carlyle to Jane Baillie Welsh
18 September 1823 251(3)
--- to Ralph Waldo Emerson
27 January 1867 254(2)
Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray
29 July 1824 256(1)
--- to Henry Colburn
14 February 1830 257(1)
--- to Sarah Disraeli
12 November 1831 258(1)
--- to the same
9 May 1835 259(1)
--- to the same
22 June 1838 259(1)
--- to Lady Bradford
25 November 1875 260(2)
Thomas De Quincey to Dorothy Wordsworth
16 July 1825 262(1)
Emily Eden to Theresa Villiers
1825 263(1)
--- to the same
15 December 1826 264(1)
--- to the same
1 September 1827 265(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay to Zachary Macaulay
21 July 1826 266(2)
--- to Thomas Flower Ellis
30 March 1831 268(2)
--- to Hannah Macaulay
1 June 1831 270(3)
--- to Margaret Macaulay
26 November 1832 273(2)
Robert Southey to Charlotte Bronte
March 1837 275(2)
Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey
16 March 1837 277(2)
--- to Emily Bronte
8 June 1839 279(1)
--- to Ellen Nussey
2 June 1851 280(2)
Sarah Austin to Susan Reeve
9 August 1837 282(2)
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs O. H. Browning
1 April 1838 284(2)
--- to Joseph Hooker
26 January 1863 286(1)
Richard Bowler to his brother
15 April 1838 287(1)
Samuel Palmer to the Linnells
9 October 1838 288(5)
--- to Polly Linnell
13 November 1838 293(1)
--- to Thomas More Palmer
6 October 1844 293(3)
--- to Miss Julia Richmond
September 1866 296(2)
--- to Mrs Julia Robinson
9 December 1872 298(3)
Charles Dickens to Daniel Maclise
22 July 1840 301(1)
--- to the same
12 March 1841 301(2)
--- to Albany Fonblanque
12 March 1842 303(4)
--- to Thomas Mitton
13 June 1865 307(2)
--- to Henry Dickens
15 October 1868 309(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller
24 October 1840 310(2)
Henry Cockburn to John Cockburn
22 October 1841 312(1)
--- to John Marshall
22 July 1847 313(1)
F. W. Ludwing Leichhart to John Murphy
3 December 1842 314(1)
Rebecca Butterworth to her father
5 July 1846 315(3)
Herman Melville to Evert A. Duyckinck
3 March 1849 318(2)
--- to Nathaniel Hawthorne
29 January? 1851 320(1)
Caroline Norton to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
9 June 1849 321(1)
Charles Kingsley to his wife
24 October 1849 322(1)
--- to Thomas Hughes
1851 323(1)
John Clare to Mary Collingwood
1850 324(1)
--- to James Hipkins
8 March 1860 325(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mrs George Beecher
December 1850 325(5)
John Ruskin to John James Ruskin
3 October 1851 330(2)
--- to the same
20 February 1852 332(1)
--- to Lady Mount-Temple
4 June 1869 333(1)
--- to the same
4 October 1872 334(2)
J.R. Lowell to A. H. Clough
23 December 1852 336(1)
A.H. Clough to J.R. Lowell
24 December 1852 336(1)
Robert E. Lee to Anne Lee
25 February 1853 337(2)
Zaduck Bamford to Frances Bamford
8 October 1854 339(1)
George Eliot to Sara Hennell
31 October 1854 340(2)
--- to Mrs Charles Bray
4 September 1855 342(2)
--- to John Chapman
1 February 1856 344(1)
--- to Harriet Beecher Stowe
29 October 1876 345(2)
Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue
1855 347(1)
--- to the same
9 July 1860 348(2)
Elizabeth B. Browning and Robert Browning to Miss M. A. de Gaudrion
30 August 1855 350(2)
H. D. Thoreau to H. G. O. Blake
6 December 1856 352(3)
Barbara Bodichon to Benjamin Smith
7-11 December 1857 355(5)
--- to the same
13-14 February 1858 360(5)
Anthony Trollope to Dorothea Sankey
24 March 1861 365(1)
Emily Dickinson to T.W. Higginson
7 June 1862 366(1)
--- to Mrs J. G. Holland
October 1870 367(1)
--- to Louise and Frances Norcross
July 1879 368(1)
--- to Susan Gilbert Dickinson
October 1883 369(1)
J.H. Newman to R.W. Church
11 July 1865 370(1)
J. A. Symonds to Charlotte Symonds
8 December 1865 371(5)
Joseph Upher to his parents
1 February 1868 376(1)
William James to Alice James
4 June 1868 377(2)
--- to Henry James, Sr.
14 December 1882 379(1)
--- to Alice James
6 July 1891 380(2)
Alice James to William James
30 July 1891 382(1)
William James to Alexander James
28 August 1898 383(1)
--- to Henry James and William James, Jr.
9 May 1906 384(1)
Charles Eliot Norton to John Ruskin
15 June 1870 385(3)
James Thomson to Hypatia Bradlaugh
5 July 1871 388(2)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
15 June 1872 390(1)
--- to the same
18 May 1880 391(1)
W. D. Howells to Mark Twain
23 May 1880 392(1)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
21 July 1885 393(1)
W. D. Howells to Mark Twain
12 February 1903 394(1)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
13 February 1903 394(2)
--- to the same
12 June 1904 396(1)
Wilkie Collins to Holman Hunt
11 March 1873 396(1)
--- to the same
8 October 1885 397(1)
Randolph Caldecott to William ---
29 March 1873 398(4)
Henry James to William James
29 May 1878 402(1)
--- to the same
1 January 1883 403(1)
--- to W. M. Fullerton
26 November 1907 404(2)
--- to Max Beerbohm
19 December 1908 406(1)
--- to Rhoda Broughton
10 August 1914 407(1)
--- to H. H. Asquith
28 June 1915 408(1)
--- to H. G. Wells
10 July 1915 409(1)
Edward, Prince of Wales, to Sir Henry F. Stephenson
17 October 1880 410(1)
Rudyard Kipling to Edith Macdonald
4 February 1884 411(3)
R. L. Stevenson to J. A. Symonds
Spring 1886 414(2)
Mrs Stevenson to Mrs Sitwell
March 1889 416(3)
Ernest Clark to the Daily Chronicle
14 August 1893 419(1)
A. E. Housman to the editor of the Standard
12 March 1894 420(1)
--- to Laurence Housman
12 May 1897 421(1)
--- to Alice Rothenstein
28 May 1909 422(1)
--- to Lily Thicknesse
11 August 1909 422(1)
A. T. Harris to the Superintendent, Atlantic City Railroad
September 1896 423(1)
Oscar Wilde to the Governor of Reading Gaol
28 May 1897 424(1)
`Bert' to Oscar Browning
1 July 1897 425(2)
W. T. Stead to the Cardinal Secretary of State
20 November 1898 427(1)
--- to the same
21 November 1898 427(1)
W. M. Fullerton to Oscar Wilde
23 June 1899 428(1)
Three schoolmistresses to Edward Elgar
28 September 1900 428(1)
Augustus John to Alexandra Schepeler
September 1907 429(1)
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey
29 September 1907 430(1)
W. B. Yeats to John Quinn
4 October 1907 431(2)
--- to the same
30 October 1920 433(2)
--- to Olivia Shakespear
1 June 1930 435(1)
--- to the same
27 December 1934 435(1)
--- to Lady Elizabeth Pelham
4 January 1939 436(1)
Edith Wharton to W. M. Fullerton
March 1908 436(1)
--- to Henry James
28 February 1915 437(2)
D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley to Rachel Annand Taylor
3 December 1910 439(2)
--- to Henry Savage
31 October 1913 441(3)
--- to Middleton Murry
27 November 1913 444(3)
--- to Lady Cynthia Asquith
3 June 1918 447(1)
--- to Katherine Mansfield
9 February 1919 448(1)
George Bernard Shaw to Gilbert Murray
14 March 1911 449(5)
--- to Mrs Patrick Campbell
22 February 1913 454(2)
--- to Lillah McCarthy
30 July 1916 456(2)
--- to Mrs Patrick Campbell
7 January 1918 458(1)
--- to St John Ervine
22 May 1918 459(1)
--- to Ada Tyrrell
28 January 1928 460(2)
--- to Helen Harris
26 August 1931 462(1)
--- to Esme Percy
20 April 1932 462(1)
--- to Edward Elgar
30 May 1933 463(1)
--- to H. G. Wells
12 September 1943 464(1)
Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward
10 February 1912 465(1)
--- to John W. Haines
21 July 1925 466(1)
J. B. Yeats to W. B. Yeats
30 August 1914 467(3)
Hugh McCrae to Helen McCrae
1 October 1914 470(5)
H.H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley
12 October 1914 475(1)
--- to the same
13 October 1914 476(1)
--- to the same
12 May 1915 477(1)
Wyndham Lewis to Augustus John
Summer 1915 478(2)
Charles Ricketts to Gordon Bottomley
2 October 1916 480(1)
--- to the same
14 October 1916 480(1)
--- to Lady Davis
July 1925 481(1)
Dora Carrington to Lytton Strachey
29 January 1917 482(2)
--- to the same
14 May 1921 484(3)
--- to Gerald Brenan
5 May 1924 487(2)
Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott
June or July 1917 489(2)
--- to the same
4 October 1917 491(2)
Aldous Huxley to Dora Carrington
14 July 1917 493(2)
Wilfred Owen to Susan Owen
4 October 1918 495(1)
Katherine Mansfield to Princess Bibesco
24 March 1921 496(1)
Edmund Wilson to John Peale Bishop
3 July 1921 496(3)
--- to Louise Bogan
19 July 1933 499(1)
--- to Alfred Kazin
December 1952 500(1)
--- to Mary Meigs
26 December 1964 501(1)
--- to Francis Steegmuller
27 July 1968 502(1)
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 July 1925 502(1)
--- to Sara Murphy
c.27 February 1936 503(3)
Elinor Wylie to Horace Wylie
20 May 1927 506(1)
James Joyce to Michael Healy
1 July 1927 507(1)
--- to Giorgio and Helen Joyce
28 November 1934 508(1)
Vladimir Dixon to James Joyce
9 February 1929 509(1)
John Betjeman to Lord Kinross
13 June 1933 509(1)
John Steinbeck to George Albee
1934 510(2)
--- to Dorothy Rodgers
25 July 1954 512(2)
James Thurber to Herman and Dorothy Miller
August 1935 514(2)
--- to Robert Leifert
4 January 1958 516(1)
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell
1 October 1938 517(3)
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Waugh
25 February 1940 520(2)
--- to the same
31 May 1942 522(1)
Stephen Spender to T. S. Eliot
21 August 1946 523(1)
T. S. Eliot to Stephen Spender
21 August 1946 523(1)
Wallance Stevens to Harvey Breit
8 August 1942 524(1)
Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers
1948 525(2)
Lady Diana Cooper to Patrick Leigh Fermor
15 June 1953 527(3)
Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins
22 September 1957 530(1)
--- to Maryat Lee
16 June 1964 530(1)
Edith Sitwell to Lady Snow
20 May 1959 531(1)
Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell
27 July 1960 532(3)
--- to the same
16 January 1975 535(1)
Sylvia Townsend Warner to William Maxwell
22 July 1967 536(2)
--- to David Garnett
6 June 1973 538(1)
David Garnett to Sylvia Townsend Warner
13 June 1973 538(1)
Sylvia Townsend Warner to David Garnett
18 June 1973 539(1)
Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis
21 November 1985 540(3)
Sources and Acknowledgements 543(12)
Index of Writers 555(2)
Index of Recipients 557
Introduction xvii
Sir Antony Windsor to Lady Lisle
26 March 1535 3(1)
Lord Edmund Howard to the same
1535? 4(1)
Sir Thomas More to Margaret Roper
5 July 1535 5(1)
Mary Hart to Lord Burghley
May 1573 6(1)
Sir Philip Sidney to Edmund Molyneux
31 May 1578 7(1)
John Stubbs to Lord Burghley
31 August 1580 8(1)
`Emanuel Plantagenet' to the same
27 June 1587 9(1)
Elizabeth I to James VI of Scotland
C.I February 1586/7 10(1)
--- to the same
August 1588 11(2)
--- to Lord Mountjoy
3 December 1600 13(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh to his wife
December 1603 14(2)
James Howell to Captain Thomas Porter
10 July 1623 16(2)
--- to Sir I.S.
25 May 1628 18(1)
--- to Lady Scroop
25 August 1628 19(1)
--- to Lady Cornwallis
2 June 1630 20(1)
Charles I to the Duke of Buckingham
12 July 1626 21(2)
Lord Carleton to Queen Henrietta Maria
23 August 1628 23(3)
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to the Earl of Carlisle
12 June 1630 26(1)
John Winthrop to Margaret Winthrop
9 September 1630 26(2)
Anthony Thacher to Peter Thacher
September 1635 28(5)
Joseph Kent to ---
11 March 1649 33(2)
The Earl of Derby to General Henry Ireton
July 1649 35(1)
The Duchess of Newcastle to William Cavendish
1645 35(1)
Anna Carr to Dr Symcotts
c.1650 36(1)
Dorothy Osborne to William Temple
September 1653 37(4)
Sir John Evelyn to Sir Richard Browne
14 February 1658 41(1)
--- to Dr Christopher Wiren
4 April 1665 42(1)
John Strype to his mother
October? 1662 43(3)
J. Tillison to Dr Sancroft
14 September 1665 46(1)
Mary Evelyn to her son
c.1673 47(1)
Christopher Hatton to his brother
25 May 1676 48(2)
Cotton Mather to John Higginson
1682 50(1)
Sir James Dick to Mr Ellies
9 May 1682 50(3)
Sir George Etherege to the Duke of Buckingham
March 1687? 53(5)
Lady Mary Wortley Montague to Edward Wortley Montagu
c.26 July 1712 58(2)
--- to the same
c.24 September 1714 60(1)
--- to Lady ---
16 August 1716 61(1)
--- to Lady ---
1 April 1717 62(2)
--- to Lady Mar
23 June 1727 64(2)
--- to Lady Pomfret
March 1739 66(2)
Jonathan Swift to Lord Oxford
21 November 1713 68(1)
--- to Robert Percival
3 January 1730 69(2)
--- to John Gay
4 May 1732 71(2)
Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift
5 December 1732 73(2)
Thomas Sheridan to the same
15 July 1735 75(1)
--- to the same
13 August 1735 76(1)
Mrs Whiteway to the Earl of Orrery
22 November 1742 77(2)
Deane Swift to the same
4 April 1744 79(1)
Alexander Pope to Martha Blount
November 1714 80(2)
--- to Hugh Bethell
19 March 1744 82(1)
Lord Hervey to Stephen Fox
7 September 1730 83(1)
--- to the same
14 November 1732 84(2)
Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole
31 October 1734 86(1)
--- to James Brown
24 September 1761 87(3)
Horace Walpole to Richard West
27 February 1740 90(2)
--- to Horace Mann
21 August 1746 92(3)
--- to George Montagu
13 November 1760 95(2)
--- to the same
2 February 1762 97(1)
--- to Lady Ossory
8 April 1779 98(3)
--- to the same
3 June 1780 101(3)
Samuel Richardson, `From a mother to a daughter'
1741 104(1)
---, `From a gentleman to a lady'
1741 105(1)
---, `From a country gentleman to his brother'
1741 106(2)
David Garrick to the Countess of Burlington
21 July 1755 108(2)
--- to the Marquis of Hartington
2 August 1755 110(1)
--- to Peter Garrick
6 November 1762 111(1)
George Burton to William Stukeley
11 August 1755 112(2)
Lady Sarah Lennox to Lady Susan Fox Strangways
7 July 1761 114(1)
--- to Lady Susan O'Brien
9 June 1766 115(5)
--- to the same
February 1779 120(3)
--- to the same
29 September 1815 123(1)
Lady Susan O'Brien, A note on changes between 1760 and 1818
1818 124(3)
Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Bute
3 November 1762 127(1)
--- to William Strahan
7 March 1774 128(1)
--- to James Macpherson
20 January 1775 129(1)
--- to Hester Thrale
27 October 1777 129(1)
--- to James Boswell
14 March 1781 130(1)
--- to Hester Thrale
19 June 1783 131(2)
James Boswell to Samuel Johnson
30 September 1764 133(1)
--- to William Temple
8 February 1768 134(3)
Sir Joshua Reynolds to James Barry
1769 137(1)
--- to Valentine Green
1 June 1783 138(1)
--- to James Boswell
7 July 1785 139(1)
Captain W. G. Evelyn to Mrs Leveson Gower
19 August 1775 140(2)
Abigail Adams to John Adams
31 March 1776 142(2)
John Adams to Abigail Adams
14 April 1776 144(2)
Erasmus Darwin to Anna Seward and reply
7, 8 September 1780 146(4)
The Prince of Wales to Prince Frederick
17 July 1781 150(4)
Prince Frederick to the Prince of Wales
30 July 1781 154(1)
The Prince of Wales to Princess Caroline
30 April 1796 155(1)
Benjamin Franklin to Sir Joseph Banks
27 July 1783 156(1)
--- to the same
30 November 1783 156(1)
Vincenzo Lunardi to King George III
16 September 1784 157(4)
John Newton to the Earl of Dartmouth
22 September 1784 161(1)
Gilbert White to Mrs Barker
19 October 1784 162(2)
Queen Charlotte Sophia to Prince William
August 1785 164(1)
Sir William Hamilton to the Prince of Wales
12 November 1788 165(1)
Edmund Burke to Sir Philip Francis
20 February 1790 166(4)
Richard Burke to the King of France
6 August 1791 170(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft to ---
1795 172(1)
Henrietta, Countess Bessborough, to Granville Leveson Gower
1796 173(1)
--- to the same
2 October 1805 174(2)
--- to the same
11 October 1808 176(1)
--- to the same
13 September 1811 177(1)
Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen
20 November 1800 178(3)
--- to Fanny Knight
18 November 1814 181(4)
Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton
17 February 1801 185(1)
--- to the same
1 March 1801 186(2)
Sir William Hamilton to Lady Hamilton
1802 188(1)
William Wordsworth to Sare Hutchinson
14 June 1802 189(1)
--- to Thomas De Quincey
29 July 1803 190(2)
Lady Hester Stanhope to Patrick Craufurd Bruce
c.27 June 1810 192(2)
--- to Mr Murray
2 January 1812 194(2)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to Lady Georgiana Morpeth
28 August 1810 196(1)
Fanny Burney to Esther Burney
March-June 1812 197(8)
Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Edgeworth
October 1812 205(3)
--- to the same
30 April 1831 208(6)
Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie
April 1816 214(4)
--- to Abel Moysey
15 June 1819 218(1)
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore
28 January 1817 219(2)
--- to John Murray
1 August 1819 221(6)
B. R. Haydon to John Keats
March 1817 227(1)
Sydney Smith to the Farmer's Magazine
August 1819 228(1)
--- to Lady Georgiana Morpeth
16 February 1820 229(1)
--- to John Allen
9 November 1826 230(1)
--- to Dr Henry Holland
8 June 1835 231(1)
--- to Miss Lucie Austin
22 July 1835 232(1)
--- to Mrs Austin
13 October 1842 233(1)
--- to Lady Carlisle
1 October 1844 233(1)
John Keats to P. B. Shelley
16 August 1820 234(1)
--- to Fanny Brawne
August? 1820 235(1)
--- to Charles Brown
1 November 1820 236(2)
Anna Francis to Mrs Galabin
22 January 1821 238(2)
Leigh Hunt to Joseph Severn
8 March 1821 240(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Maria Gisborne
15 August 1822 241(7)
The Chevalier de Santa Rosa to Sarah Austin
26 December 1822 248(2)
Jane Baillie Welsh to Thomas Carlyle
16 September 1823 250(1)
Thomas Carlyle to Jane Baillie Welsh
18 September 1823 251(3)
--- to Ralph Waldo Emerson
27 January 1867 254(2)
Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray
29 July 1824 256(1)
--- to Henry Colburn
14 February 1830 257(1)
--- to Sarah Disraeli
12 November 1831 258(1)
--- to the same
9 May 1835 259(1)
--- to the same
22 June 1838 259(1)
--- to Lady Bradford
25 November 1875 260(2)
Thomas De Quincey to Dorothy Wordsworth
16 July 1825 262(1)
Emily Eden to Theresa Villiers
1825 263(1)
--- to the same
15 December 1826 264(1)
--- to the same
1 September 1827 265(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay to Zachary Macaulay
21 July 1826 266(2)
--- to Thomas Flower Ellis
30 March 1831 268(2)
--- to Hannah Macaulay
1 June 1831 270(3)
--- to Margaret Macaulay
26 November 1832 273(2)
Robert Southey to Charlotte Bronte
March 1837 275(2)
Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey
16 March 1837 277(2)
--- to Emily Bronte
8 June 1839 279(1)
--- to Ellen Nussey
2 June 1851 280(2)
Sarah Austin to Susan Reeve
9 August 1837 282(2)
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs O. H. Browning
1 April 1838 284(2)
--- to Joseph Hooker
26 January 1863 286(1)
Richard Bowler to his brother
15 April 1838 287(1)
Samuel Palmer to the Linnells
9 October 1838 288(5)
--- to Polly Linnell
13 November 1838 293(1)
--- to Thomas More Palmer
6 October 1844 293(3)
--- to Miss Julia Richmond
September 1866 296(2)
--- to Mrs Julia Robinson
9 December 1872 298(3)
Charles Dickens to Daniel Maclise
22 July 1840 301(1)
--- to the same
12 March 1841 301(2)
--- to Albany Fonblanque
12 March 1842 303(4)
--- to Thomas Mitton
13 June 1865 307(2)
--- to Henry Dickens
15 October 1868 309(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller
24 October 1840 310(2)
Henry Cockburn to John Cockburn
22 October 1841 312(1)
--- to John Marshall
22 July 1847 313(1)
F. W. Ludwing Leichhart to John Murphy
3 December 1842 314(1)
Rebecca Butterworth to her father
5 July 1846 315(3)
Herman Melville to Evert A. Duyckinck
3 March 1849 318(2)
--- to Nathaniel Hawthorne
29 January? 1851 320(1)
Caroline Norton to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
9 June 1849 321(1)
Charles Kingsley to his wife
24 October 1849 322(1)
--- to Thomas Hughes
1851 323(1)
John Clare to Mary Collingwood
1850 324(1)
--- to James Hipkins
8 March 1860 325(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mrs George Beecher
December 1850 325(5)
John Ruskin to John James Ruskin
3 October 1851 330(2)
--- to the same
20 February 1852 332(1)
--- to Lady Mount-Temple
4 June 1869 333(1)
--- to the same
4 October 1872 334(2)
J.R. Lowell to A. H. Clough
23 December 1852 336(1)
A.H. Clough to J.R. Lowell
24 December 1852 336(1)
Robert E. Lee to Anne Lee
25 February 1853 337(2)
Zaduck Bamford to Frances Bamford
8 October 1854 339(1)
George Eliot to Sara Hennell
31 October 1854 340(2)
--- to Mrs Charles Bray
4 September 1855 342(2)
--- to John Chapman
1 February 1856 344(1)
--- to Harriet Beecher Stowe
29 October 1876 345(2)
Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue
1855 347(1)
--- to the same
9 July 1860 348(2)
Elizabeth B. Browning and Robert Browning to Miss M. A. de Gaudrion
30 August 1855 350(2)
H. D. Thoreau to H. G. O. Blake
6 December 1856 352(3)
Barbara Bodichon to Benjamin Smith
7-11 December 1857 355(5)
--- to the same
13-14 February 1858 360(5)
Anthony Trollope to Dorothea Sankey
24 March 1861 365(1)
Emily Dickinson to T.W. Higginson
7 June 1862 366(1)
--- to Mrs J. G. Holland
October 1870 367(1)
--- to Louise and Frances Norcross
July 1879 368(1)
--- to Susan Gilbert Dickinson
October 1883 369(1)
J.H. Newman to R.W. Church
11 July 1865 370(1)
J. A. Symonds to Charlotte Symonds
8 December 1865 371(5)
Joseph Upher to his parents
1 February 1868 376(1)
William James to Alice James
4 June 1868 377(2)
--- to Henry James, Sr.
14 December 1882 379(1)
--- to Alice James
6 July 1891 380(2)
Alice James to William James
30 July 1891 382(1)
William James to Alexander James
28 August 1898 383(1)
--- to Henry James and William James, Jr.
9 May 1906 384(1)
Charles Eliot Norton to John Ruskin
15 June 1870 385(3)
James Thomson to Hypatia Bradlaugh
5 July 1871 388(2)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
15 June 1872 390(1)
--- to the same
18 May 1880 391(1)
W. D. Howells to Mark Twain
23 May 1880 392(1)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
21 July 1885 393(1)
W. D. Howells to Mark Twain
12 February 1903 394(1)
Mark Twain to W. D. Howells
13 February 1903 394(2)
--- to the same
12 June 1904 396(1)
Wilkie Collins to Holman Hunt
11 March 1873 396(1)
--- to the same
8 October 1885 397(1)
Randolph Caldecott to William ---
29 March 1873 398(4)
Henry James to William James
29 May 1878 402(1)
--- to the same
1 January 1883 403(1)
--- to W. M. Fullerton
26 November 1907 404(2)
--- to Max Beerbohm
19 December 1908 406(1)
--- to Rhoda Broughton
10 August 1914 407(1)
--- to H. H. Asquith
28 June 1915 408(1)
--- to H. G. Wells
10 July 1915 409(1)
Edward, Prince of Wales, to Sir Henry F. Stephenson
17 October 1880 410(1)
Rudyard Kipling to Edith Macdonald
4 February 1884 411(3)
R. L. Stevenson to J. A. Symonds
Spring 1886 414(2)
Mrs Stevenson to Mrs Sitwell
March 1889 416(3)
Ernest Clark to the Daily Chronicle
14 August 1893 419(1)
A. E. Housman to the editor of the Standard
12 March 1894 420(1)
--- to Laurence Housman
12 May 1897 421(1)
--- to Alice Rothenstein
28 May 1909 422(1)
--- to Lily Thicknesse
11 August 1909 422(1)
A. T. Harris to the Superintendent, Atlantic City Railroad
September 1896 423(1)
Oscar Wilde to the Governor of Reading Gaol
28 May 1897 424(1)
`Bert' to Oscar Browning
1 July 1897 425(2)
W. T. Stead to the Cardinal Secretary of State
20 November 1898 427(1)
--- to the same
21 November 1898 427(1)
W. M. Fullerton to Oscar Wilde
23 June 1899 428(1)
Three schoolmistresses to Edward Elgar
28 September 1900 428(1)
Augustus John to Alexandra Schepeler
September 1907 429(1)
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey
29 September 1907 430(1)
W. B. Yeats to John Quinn
4 October 1907 431(2)
--- to the same
30 October 1920 433(2)
--- to Olivia Shakespear
1 June 1930 435(1)
--- to the same
27 December 1934 435(1)
--- to Lady Elizabeth Pelham
4 January 1939 436(1)
Edith Wharton to W. M. Fullerton
March 1908 436(1)
--- to Henry James
28 February 1915 437(2)
D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley to Rachel Annand Taylor
3 December 1910 439(2)
--- to Henry Savage
31 October 1913 441(3)
--- to Middleton Murry
27 November 1913 444(3)
--- to Lady Cynthia Asquith
3 June 1918 447(1)
--- to Katherine Mansfield
9 February 1919 448(1)
George Bernard Shaw to Gilbert Murray
14 March 1911 449(5)
--- to Mrs Patrick Campbell
22 February 1913 454(2)
--- to Lillah McCarthy
30 July 1916 456(2)
--- to Mrs Patrick Campbell
7 January 1918 458(1)
--- to St John Ervine
22 May 1918 459(1)
--- to Ada Tyrrell
28 January 1928 460(2)
--- to Helen Harris
26 August 1931 462(1)
--- to Esme Percy
20 April 1932 462(1)
--- to Edward Elgar
30 May 1933 463(1)
--- to H. G. Wells
12 September 1943 464(1)
Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward
10 February 1912 465(1)
--- to John W. Haines
21 July 1925 466(1)
J. B. Yeats to W. B. Yeats
30 August 1914 467(3)
Hugh McCrae to Helen McCrae
1 October 1914 470(5)
H.H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley
12 October 1914 475(1)
--- to the same
13 October 1914 476(1)
--- to the same
12 May 1915 477(1)
Wyndham Lewis to Augustus John
Summer 1915 478(2)
Charles Ricketts to Gordon Bottomley
2 October 1916 480(1)
--- to the same
14 October 1916 480(1)
--- to Lady Davis
July 1925 481(1)
Dora Carrington to Lytton Strachey
29 January 1917 482(2)
--- to the same
14 May 1921 484(3)
--- to Gerald Brenan
5 May 1924 487(2)
Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott
June or July 1917 489(2)
--- to the same
4 October 1917 491(2)
Aldous Huxley to Dora Carrington
14 July 1917 493(2)
Wilfred Owen to Susan Owen
4 October 1918 495(1)
Katherine Mansfield to Princess Bibesco
24 March 1921 496(1)
Edmund Wilson to John Peale Bishop
3 July 1921 496(3)
--- to Louise Bogan
19 July 1933 499(1)
--- to Alfred Kazin
December 1952 500(1)
--- to Mary Meigs
26 December 1964 501(1)
--- to Francis Steegmuller
27 July 1968 502(1)
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 July 1925 502(1)
--- to Sara Murphy
c.27 February 1936 503(3)
Elinor Wylie to Horace Wylie
20 May 1927 506(1)
James Joyce to Michael Healy
1 July 1927 507(1)
--- to Giorgio and Helen Joyce
28 November 1934 508(1)
Vladimir Dixon to James Joyce
9 February 1929 509(1)
John Betjeman to Lord Kinross
13 June 1933 509(1)
John Steinbeck to George Albee
1934 510(2)
--- to Dorothy Rodgers
25 July 1954 512(2)
James Thurber to Herman and Dorothy Miller
August 1935 514(2)
--- to Robert Leifert
4 January 1958 516(1)
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell
1 October 1938 517(3)
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Waugh
25 February 1940 520(2)
--- to the same
31 May 1942 522(1)
Stephen Spender to T. S. Eliot
21 August 1946 523(1)
T. S. Eliot to Stephen Spender
21 August 1946 523(1)
Wallance Stevens to Harvey Breit
8 August 1942 524(1)
Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers
1948 525(2)
Lady Diana Cooper to Patrick Leigh Fermor
15 June 1953 527(3)
Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins
22 September 1957 530(1)
--- to Maryat Lee
16 June 1964 530(1)
Edith Sitwell to Lady Snow
20 May 1959 531(1)
Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell
27 July 1960 532(3)
--- to the same
16 January 1975 535(1)
Sylvia Townsend Warner to William Maxwell
22 July 1967 536(2)
--- to David Garnett
6 June 1973 538(1)
David Garnett to Sylvia Townsend Warner
13 June 1973 538(1)
Sylvia Townsend Warner to David Garnett
18 June 1973 539(1)
Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis
21 November 1985 540(3)
Sources and Acknowledgements 543(12)
Index of Writers 555(2)
Index of Recipients 557
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