The Oxford book of letters / edited by Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode
1995, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Spine sun-toned and creased. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #474513
Physical description; xxiv, 559 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-553) and indexes. Contents; Sir Antony Windsor to Lady Lisle -- Lord Edmund Howard to the same -- Sir Thomas More to Margaret Roper -- Mary Hart to Lord Burghley -- Sir Philip Sidney to Edmund Molyneux -- John Stubbs to Lord Burghley -- 'Emanuel Plantagenet' to the same -- Elizabeth I to James VI of Scotland -- Elizabeth I to Lord Mountjoy -- Sir Walter Ralegh to his wife -- James Howell to Captain Thomas -- James Howell to Sir I.S. -- James Howell to Lady Scroop -- James Howell to Lady Cornwallis -- Charles I to the Duke of Buckingham -- Lord Carleton to Queen Henrietta Maria -- Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to the Earl of Carlisle -- John Winthrop to Margaret Winthrop -- Anthony Thacher to Peter Thacher -- Joseph Kent to ... -- The Earl of Derby to General Henry Ireton -- The Duchess of Newcastle to William Cavendish -- Anna Carr to Dr. Symcotts -- Dorothy Osborne to William Temple -- Sir John Evelyn to Sir Richard Browne -- Sir John Evelyn to Dr. Christoper Wren -- John Strype to his mother -- J. Tillison to Dr. Sancroft -- Mary Evelyn to her son -- Christopher Hatton to his brother -- Cotton Mather to John Higginson -- Sir James Dick to Mr. Ellies -- Sir George Etherege to the Duke of Buckingham -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Edward Wortley Montagu -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Mar -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Pomfret -- Jonathan Swift to Lord Oxford -- Jonathan Swift to Robert Percival -- Jonathan Swift to John Gay -- Alexander Pope and John Arburthnot to Jonathan Swift -- Thomas Sheridan to Jonathan Swift -- Mrs. Whiteway to the Earl of Orrery -- Deane Swift to Earl of Orrery -- Alexander Pope to Martha Blount -- Alexander Pope to Hugh Bethell -- Lord Hervey to Stephen Fox -- Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole -- Thomas Gray to James Brown -- Horace Walpole to Richard West -- Horace Walpole to Horace Mann -- horace Walpole to George Montagu -- Horace to Lady Ossory -- Samuel Richardson, 'From a mother to a daughter' -- Samuel Richardson, 'From a gentleman to a lady' -- Samuel Richardson, 'From a county gentleman to his brother' -- David Garrick to the Countess of Burlington -- David Garrick to the Marquis of Hartington -- David Garrick to Peter Garrick -- George Burton to William Stukeley -- Lady Sarah Lennox to Lady Susan Fox Strangways -- Lady Sarah Lennox to Lady Susan O'Brien -- Lady Susan O'Brien, A note on changes between 1760 and 1818 -- Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Bute -- Samuel Johnson to William Strahan -- Samuel Johnson to James Macpherson -- Samuel Johnson to Hester Thrale -- Samuel Johnson to James Boswell -- James Boswell to Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell to William Temple -- Sir Joshua Reynolds to James Barry -- Sir Joshua Reynolds to Valentine Green -- Sir Joshua Reynolds to James Boswell -- Captain W.G. Evelyn to Mrs. Leveson Gower -- Abigail Adams to John Adams -- John Adams to Abigail Adams -- Erasmus Darwin to Anna Seward and reply -- The Prince of Wales to Prince Frederick -- Prince Fredrick to the Prince of Wales -- The Prince of Wales to Princess Caroline -- Benjamin Franklin to Sir Joseph Banks -- Vincenzo Lunardi to King George III -- John Newton to the Earl of Dartmouth -- Gilbert White to Mrs. Barker -- Queen Charlotte Sophia to Prince William -- Sir William Hamilton to the Prince of Wales -- Edmund Burke to Sir Philip Francis -- Richard Burke to the King of France -- Mary Wollstonecraft to ... -- Henrietta, Countess Bessborough, to Granville Leveson Gower -- Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen -- Jane Austen to Fanny Knight -- Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton -- Sir William Hamilton to Lady Hamilton -- William Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson -- William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey -- Lady Hester Stanhope to Patrick Craufurd Bruce -- Lady Hester Stanhope to Mr. Murray -- Harriet, Countess Granville, to Lady Georgiana Morpeth -- Fanny Burney to Esther Burney -- Maria Edgeworth to Mrs. Edgeworth -- Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie -- to Abel Moysey -- Lord Byron to Thomas Moore -- Lord Byron to John Murray -- B.R.h. Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey -- Charlotte Bronte to Emily Bronte -- Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey -- Sarah Austin to Susan Reeve -- Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. O.H. Browning -- Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker -- Richard Bowler to his brother -- Samuel Palmer to the Linnells -- Samuel Palmer to Polly Linnell -- Samuel Palmer to Thomas More Palmer -- Samuel Palmer to Miss Julia Richmond -- Samuel Palmer to Mrs. Julia Robinson -- Charles Dickens to Daniel Maclise -- Charles Dickens to Albany Fonblanque -- Charles Dickens to Thomas Mitton -- Charles Dickens to Henry Dickens -- Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller -- Henry Cockburn to John Cockburn -- Henry Cockburn to John Marshall -- F.W. Ludwig Leichhart to John Murphy -- Rebecca Butterworth to her father -- Herman Melville to Evert A. Duyckinck -- Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Caroline Norton to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon -- Charles Kingsley to his wife -- Charles Kingsley to Thomas Hughes -- John Clare to Mary Collingwood -- John Clare to James Hipkins -- Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mrs. George Beecher -- John Ruskin to John James Ruskin -- John Ruskin to Lady Mount-Temple -- J.R. Lowell to A.H. Clough -- A.H. Clough to J.R. Lowell -- Robert E. Lee to Anne Lee -- Zaduck Bamford to Frances Bamford -- George Eliot to Sara Hennell -- George Eliot to Mrs. Charles Bray -- George Eliot to John Chapman -- George Eliot to Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue -- Elizabeth B. Browning and Robert Browning to Miss M.A. de Gaudrion -- H.D. Thoreau to H.G.O. Blake -- Barbara Bodichon to Benmamin Smith -- Anthony Trollope to Dorothea Sankey -- Emily Dickinson to T.W. Higginson -- Emily Dickinson to Mrs. J.G. Holland -- Emily Dickinson to Louise and Frances Norcross -- Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson -- J.H. Newman to R.W. Church -- J.A. Symonds to Charlotte Symonds -- Joseph Upher to his parents -- William James to Alice James -- William James to Henry James, Sr. -- Alice James to William James -- William James t0 Alexander James -- William James to Alexander James -- William James to Henry James and William James, Jr. -- Charles Eliot Norton to John Ruskin -- James Thomson to Hypatia Bradlaugh -- Mark Twain to W.D. Howells -- W.D. Howells to Mark Twain -- Wilkie Collins to Holman Hunt -- Randolph Caldecott to William -- Henry James to William James -- Henry James to W.M. Fullerton -- Henry James to Max Beerbohm -- Henry James to Rhoda Broughton -- Henry James to H.H. Asquith -- Henry James to H.G. Wells -- Edward, Prince to Wales, to Sir Henry F. Stephenson -- Rudyard Kipling to Edith Macdonald -- R.L. Stevenson to J.A. Symonds -- Mrs. Stevenson to Mrs. Sitwell -- Ernest Clark to the Daily Chronicle -- A.E. Housman to the editor of the Standard -- A.E. Housman to Laurence Housman -- A.E. Housman to Alice Rothenstein -- A.E. Housman to Lily Thicknesse. A.T. Harris to the Superintendent, Atlantic City Railroad -- Oscar Wilde to the Governor of Reading Gaol -- Bert to Oscar Browning -- W.T. Stead to the Cardinal Secretary of State -- W.M. Fullerton to Oscar Wilde -- Three schoolmistresses to Edward Elgar -- Augustus John to Alexandra Schepeler -- Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey -- W.B. Yeats to John Quinn -- W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear -- W.B. Yeats to Lady Elizabeth Pelham -- Edith Wharton to W.M. Fullerton -- Edith Wharton to Henry James -- D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley to Rachel Annand Taylor -- D.H. Lawrence to Henry Savage -- D.H. Lawrence to Middleton Murry -- D.H. Lawrence to Lady Cynthia Asquith -- D.H. Lawrence to Katherine Mansfield -- George Bernard Shaw to Gilbert Murray -- George Bernard Shaw to Mrs. Patrick Campbell -- George Bernard Shaw to Lillah McCarthy -- George Bernard Shaw to Mrs. Patrick Campbell -- George Bernard Shaw to St. John Ervine -- George Bernard Shaw to Ada Tyrrell -- George Bernard Shaw to Helen Harris -- George Bernarad Shaw to Esme Percy -- George Bernard Shaw to Edward Elgar -- George Bernard Shaw to H.G. Wells -- Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward -- Robert Frost to Susan Hayes Ward -- Robert Frost to John W. Haines -- J.B. Yeats to W.B. Yeats -- Hugh McCrae to Helen McCrae -- H.H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley -- Wyndham Lewis to Augustus John -- Charles Ricketts to Gordon Bottomley -- Charles Ricketts to Lady Davis -- Dora Carrington to Lytton Strachey -- Dora Carrington to Gerald Brenan -- Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott -- Aldous Huxley to Dora Carrington -- Wilfred Owen to Susan Owen -- Katherine Mansfield to Princess Bibesco -- Edmund Wilson to John Peale Bishop -- Edmund Wilson to Louise Bogan -- Edmund Wilson to Alfred Kazin -- Edmund Wilson to Mary Meigs -- Edmund Wilson to Francis Steegmuller -- Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway to Sara Murphy -- Elinor Wylie to Horace Wylie -- James Joyce to Michael Healy -- James Joyce to Giorgio and Helen Joyce -- Vladimir Dixon to James Joyce -- John Betjeman to Lord Kinross -- John Steinbeck to George Albee -- John Steinbeck to Dorothy Rodgers -- James Thurber to Herman and Dorothy Miller -- James Thurber to Robert Leifert -- Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell -- Evelyn Waugh to Laura Waught -- Stephen Spender to T.S. Eliot -- T.S. Eliot to Stephen Spender -- Wallace Stevens to Harvey Breit -- Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers -- Lady Diana Cooper to Patrick Leigh Fermor -- Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins -- Flannery O'Connor to Maryat Lee -- Edith Sitwell to Lady Snow -- Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Townsend Warner to William Maxwell -- Sylvia Townsend Warner to David Garnett -- Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis. Subjects; Geschichte 1535-1985. English letters. American letters. Collected Correspondence. Manners and customs. Letters. English letters Anthologies.
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