A Treasury of the World's Great Letters from Ancient Days to Our Own Time: Containing the Characteristic and Crucial Communications, and Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence, of Many of the Outstanding Figures of World History, and Some Notable ContemporariesMax Lincoln Schuster W. Heinemann, 1941 - 496 pages |
Contents
ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND KING DARIUS III | 3 |
THE YOUNGER PLINY ASKS THE EMPEROR TRAJAN | 21 |
SAINT JEROME BEHOLDS THE DECLINE AND FALL | 27 |
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