Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... Published Correspondence of Eminent Individuals : — I. France , II . England , Letters in Modern Biographies , Quaint and Pithy Letters , Laconic Letters , Business and Official Letters , Love - Letters , · Juvenile Correspondence ...
... Published Correspondence of Eminent Individuals : — I. France , II . England , Letters in Modern Biographies , Quaint and Pithy Letters , Laconic Letters , Business and Official Letters , Love - Letters , · Juvenile Correspondence ...
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... 1 See some interesting criticism on a lady's letter - writing , at p . 96 of Lord Lindsay's recently published Memoir of Lady Anna Mackenzie , Countess of Balcarres and Argyll . Crossed Letters . 7 Crossing and Postscripts . It must.
... 1 See some interesting criticism on a lady's letter - writing , at p . 96 of Lord Lindsay's recently published Memoir of Lady Anna Mackenzie , Countess of Balcarres and Argyll . Crossed Letters . 7 Crossing and Postscripts . It must.
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... publish . ' Upwards of twenty years ago a writer in the Quarterly Review referred to another cause of the inferiority of modern letter - writing . It is not to be doubted , ' he says , ' that the conversa- tional power , as well as the ...
... publish . ' Upwards of twenty years ago a writer in the Quarterly Review referred to another cause of the inferiority of modern letter - writing . It is not to be doubted , ' he says , ' that the conversa- tional power , as well as the ...
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... published by Sir John Fenn , a celebrated antiquary of the eighteenth century . The authenticity of these letters , which long formed a subject of contro- versy , has now been fully established by the recent elaborate investigations of ...
... published by Sir John Fenn , a celebrated antiquary of the eighteenth century . The authenticity of these letters , which long formed a subject of contro- versy , has now been fully established by the recent elaborate investigations of ...
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... published , at the sugges- tion of Sir Thomas Phillips , by Mary Ann Everett Wood . It contains no fewer than 442 epistles , of which nearly 400 belong to the six- teenth century . The earliest of the remainder is a letter addressed by ...
... published , at the sugges- tion of Sir Thomas Phillips , by Mary Ann Everett Wood . It contains no fewer than 442 epistles , of which nearly 400 belong to the six- teenth century . The earliest of the remainder is a letter addressed by ...
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