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• The gentlest art; a choice of letters, by entertaining hands, ed. by E. V. Lucas ... (New York, The MacMillan company, 1907), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unaddressed letters. (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old love-letters, (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1883), by Abby Sage Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of literary men : The nineteenth century. (London : G. Routledge, [1911]), by Frank Arthur Mumby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original letters from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, &c, &c. With biographical illustrations. (Bath : Printed by R. Cruttwell; London, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817), by Rebecca Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art, a choice of letters, by entertaining hands, edited by E.V. Lucas. (London : Methuen & co., [1907]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frederick Goodyear, letters and remains, 1887-1917. (London : McBride, Nast, 1920), by Frederick Goodyear (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An eighteenth-century correspondence, being the letters of Deane Swift--Pitt--the Lytteltons and the Grenvilles--Lord Dacre--Robert Nugent--Charles Jenkinson--the Earls of Guilford, Coventry, & Hardwick--Sir Edward Turner--Mr. Talbot of Lacock, and others to Sanderson Miller, esq., of Radway; ed. by Lilian Dickins and Mary Stanton. (London, J. Murray, 1910), by Lilian Dickins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Tenbury letters, selected & edited by Edmund H. Fellowes, hon. librarian of St. Michael's college, Tenbury, & Edward Pine. ([London] The Golden cockerel press, 1912), by England). Library St. Michael's College (Tenbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Letter book / selected with an introduction on the history and art of letter-writing, by George Saintsbury. (London : G. Bell, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters written in war time (XV-XIX centuries) / selected and arranged by H. Wragg. (London : Oxford University Press (H. Milford), [1915]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from many pens, a collection of letters chosen and ed., with introduction and notes, by Margaret Coult. (New York, Macmillan, 1917), by Margaret Coult (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post : a companion to "The gentlest art" / [by] E.V. Lucas. (New York : The Macmillan company, [1910]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters & journals of Lord Byron: with notices of his life, by Thomas Moore. (London, J. Murray, 1833), by George Gordon Byron Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to the Editor of "The Times" in answer to those of "Emeritus" on ordnance estimates. (London: Hatchard, 1849), by David Paul Kavanaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield : consisting of letters to his friends, never before printed, and various other articles : to which are prefixed, memoirs of his life, tending to illustrate the civil, literary, and political history of his time / by M. Maty ... (Dublin : Printed for W. Watson ... [and 35 others], 1777), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature in letters, or, Manners, art, criticism, biography, history, and morals illustrated in the correspondence of eminent persons / edited by James P. Holcombe. (New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1866, c1865), by James Philemon Holcombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trifles from a tourist in letters from abroad. (Norwich, Fletcher & Son, [1886]), by Russell James Colman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters of literary men... arranged and edited by Frank Arthur Mumby. (London, G. Routledge & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1906]), by Frank Arthur Mumby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e; written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks; drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers ... (London, Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763), by Mary Wortley Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of the Rev. S. Rutherford. With an introductory essay, by T. Erskine. (Glasgow, W. Collins, 1827), by Samuel Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistolary curiosities : series the first: consisting of unpublished letters of the seventeenth century, illustrative of the Herbert family, and of the reigns of James I., Charles I., Charles II., James II., and William III., from George Herbert, Elizabeth queen of Bohemia, Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sir Henry Herbert, Knight ... Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, General Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell ... With notes, and an appendix. Edited by Rebecca Warner. (Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1818), by Rebecca Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from Altamont in the capital to his friends in the country. (London, T. Becket, 1776), by Charles Jenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post : a companion to The gentlest art. ([London] : Methuen, [1910]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women as letter-writers; a collection of letters selected and edited by Ada M. Ingpen. (New York, The Baker and Taylor company, [1910]), by Ada M. Ingpen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elegant epistles, or, A copious collection of familiar and amusing letters : selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment, from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney ... [et al.] (Dublin : H. Chamberlaine and Rice, 1790) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passing world. (London, Ward, 1897), by Bessie Rayner Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The letters of Charles Lamb, newly arranged, with additions, ed., with introduction and notes, by Alfred Ainger. (London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1904), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fitzosborne's letters, on several subjects. By William Melmoth ... With the Dialogue concerning oratory. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author. (Boston: Published by Wells and Lilly, and Cummings and Hilliard., 1815), by William Melmoth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the letters of her correspondents. (London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810-), by Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of the late Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends : with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais. (London : Printed for A. Miller, W. Law, and R. Carter, 1794), by Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, & Judy Ussher, late of the city of Waterford. (Dublin : Printed by J. Jones, 1812), by Elizabeth Ussher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the letters and other papers of William Grover, preceded by a biographical notice of his life. (Philadelphia, T. Kite, 1831), by William Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary relics: containing original letters from King Charles II., King James II., the Queen of Bohemia, Swift, Berkeley, Addison, Steele, Congreve, the Duke of Ormond, and Bishop Rundle. To which is prefixed, an inquiry into the life of Dean Swift. By George-Monck Berkeley. (London, Printed for T. Kay, 1792), by George Monck Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical English letter-writer, or, Epistolary selections : designed to improve young persons in the art of letter-writing and in the principles of virtue and piety : with introductory rules and observations on epistolary composition, and biographical notices of the writers from whom the letters are selected / by the author of "Lessons for young persons in humble life." (Philadelphia : Caleb Richardson, 1816) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art : a choice of letters by entertaining hands. (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1908), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• British letters illustrative of character and social life, ed. by Edward T. Mason. (New York, & London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1888), by Edward Tuckerman Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rational amusement: comprehending a collection of letters on a great variety of subjects, serious, entertaining, moral, diverting, and instructive. Interspersed with essays, and some little pieces of history ... With a preface by the Author of The memoirs of the Duke de Ripperda. (London, Printed for J. Hodges, 1754), by John Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e, written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, etc. in different parts of Europe. Which contain among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks; drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers. (Aix, Printed by A. Henricy, 1796), by Mary Wortley Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The epistolary correspondence, visitation charges, speeches, and miscellanies, of the Right Reverend Francis Atterbury ... with historical notes ... (London, J. Nichols [etc.], 1783-84), by Francis Atterbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walpoliana. [Selections from Horace Walpole's writings] (Chiswick, T. Tegg, 1830), by Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of the Rt. Hon. Henry Austin Bruce, Lord Aberdare of Duffryn; with biographical introductions and notes. (Oxford, Printed for private circulation, 1902), by Henry Austin Bruce Aberdare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected English letters (xv-xix centuries) / arranged by M. Duckitt and H. Wragg. (London : H. Milford : Oxford University Press, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elegant epistles: being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters, from the most eminent epistolary writers. (London, J. Sharpe, [1821?]), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; from the manuscript in the library at Woburn Abbey. To which is prefixed, an introduction, vindicating the character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. (Dublin, Printed for E. Thomas, and S. Colbert, 1775), by Rachel Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of literary men ... arranged and ed. by Frank Arthur Mumby. (London, G. Routledge & Sons, Limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1908), by Frank Arthur Mumby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four centuries of English letters : selections from the correspondence of one hundred and fifty writers from the period of the Paston letters to the present day / edited and arranged by W. Baptiste Scoones. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women as letter-writers : a collection of letters / selected and edited by Ada M. Ingpen. (London : Hutchinson, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love-letters of Mr. H. & Miss R.: 1775-1779 / Edited by Gilbert Burgess. (Chicago ; Stone & Kimball, 1895), by James Hackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gentlest art; a choice of letters, by entertaining hands, ed. by E.V. Lucas ... (New York, Macmillan Company, 1913), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen letters, selected and ed. by Albert S. Cook ... and Allen R. Benham. (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & company, [1905]), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unaddressed letters / edited by Frank Athelstane Swettenham. (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1898), by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four centuries of English letters; selections from the correspondence of one hundred and fifty writers from the period of the Paston letters to the present day. Ed. and arranged by W. Baptiste Scoones. (London, C. K. Paul, 1880), by William Baptiste Scoones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nineteenth century letters, selected and ed., with an introduction, by Byron Johnson Rees. (New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribners sons, [c1919]), by Byron Johnson Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great English letter writers; with introductory essays and notes (New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company, c[1908]), by Willism James Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women as letter-writers; a collection of letters selected and edited by Ada M. Ingpen ... (New York, The Baker and Taylor company, [1910]), by Ada De la Mare Ingpen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art; (New York, The Macmillan company, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant epistles: being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment, from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney...and others... (London, F.C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1822), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's book of classical letters, consisting of epistolary selections; designed to improve young ladies and gentlemen in the art of letter-writing ... with introductory rules and observations on epistolary composition. By the author of The young man's own book. (Philadelphia, Grigg & Elliot, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Mr. Whistler, Miss Dolman, Mr. R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws &c. of the Republic of Venice, and some poetical pieces; the whole now first published from original copies. (London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1778), by Thomas Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistolary curiosities ... consisting of unpublished letters ... illustrative of the Herbert family ... (Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell; London, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818), by Rebecca Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters written by the late Earl of Chatham to his nephew Thomas Pitt, Esq. (afterwards Lord Camelford) then at Cambridge. (London : Printed for T. Payne by T. Bensley, 1804), by William Pitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of literary men ... (London, G. Routledge & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1906]), by Frank Arthur Mumby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rev. Wm. Jones's letters to his pupils. Letters on the improvement of the mind / by Hester Chapone (London : J. Sharpe, 1821), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of royal and illustrious ladies of Great Britain, from the commencement of the twelfth century to the close of the reign of Queen Mary; ed. ... by Mary Anne Everett Wood. (London, H. Colburn, 1846), by Mary Anne Everett Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and journals of Lord Byron : with notices of his life / by Thomas Moore. (New York : J. & J. Harper, 1830-31), by George Gordon Byron Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected English letters, ed. by Claude M. Fuess ... (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1914]), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected letters, by Stella Stewart Center. (New York, Chicago, C.E. Merrill company, [c1915]), by Stella S. Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd . (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1896), by Maria Josepha Holroyd Stanley Stanley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early married life of Maria Josepha, lady Stanley, with extracts from Sir John Stanley's 'Præterita'. Edited by one of their grandchildren, Jane H. Adeane. (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co., 1899), by Maria Josepha Stanley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters, by several eminent persons deceased. Including the correspondence of John Hughes, esq. ... and several of his friends, published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical. By John Duncombe. (London, J. Johnson, 1773), by John Duncombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary relics: containing original letters from King Charles II., King James II., the Queen of Bohemia, Swift, Berkeley, Addison, Steele, Congreve, the Duke of Ormond, and Bishop Rundle. To which is prefixed, an inquiry into the life of Dean Swift. By George-Monck Berkeley. (London, Printed for C. Elliot and T. Kay, 1789), by George Monck Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator, during the time those works were publishing. None of which have been before printed ... (London, Printed by R. Harbin for C. Lillie, 1725), by Charles Lillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Select collection of original letters; written by the most eminent persons on various entertaining subjects and on many important occasions from the reign of Henry the Eighth to the present time. (London, Printed for J. and J. Rivington, 1755) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women as letter-writers; a collection of letters selected and edited by Ada M. Ingpen ... (New York, The Baker and Taylor company, [1910]), by Ada Ingpen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William Mason; now first published from the original mss. Edited, with notes by the Rev. J. Mitford. (London, R. Bentley, 1851), by Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations. (London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; [etc., etc.], 1813), by John Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private correspondence of William Cowper, esq. with several of his most intimate friends. Now first published from the originals in the possession of his kinsman, John Johnson. (Philadelphia, E. Littell; [etc., etc.], 1824), by William Cowper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-hours with the best letter-writers and autobiographers. Forming a collection of memoirs and anecdotes of eminent persons. By Charles Knight. (London, New York, Routledge and sons, 1867-68), by Charles Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of royal and illustrious ladies of Great Britain : from the commencement of the twelfth century to the close of the reign of Queen Mary (London : H. Colburn, 1846), by Mary Anne Everett Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature in letters : or, Manners, art, criticism, biography, history, and morals, illustrated in the correspondence of eminent persons / Ed. by James P. Holcombe, LL. D. (New York : D. Appleton and company, 1866), by James Philemon Holcombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Byron in Italy; a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron relating to his life in Italy. Ed. by Anna Benneson McMahan ... With sixty illustrations from photographs. (London, T. F. Unwin, 1907), by George Gordon Byron Byron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British letters illustrative of character and social life, ed. by Edard T. Mason. (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1888), by Edward Tuckerman Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters addressed to Thomas Hearne, M.A., of Edmund Hall / edited by Frederic Ouvry, F.S.A. (London : Privately Printed, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post : a companion to "The gentlest art" / E.V. Lucas. ([London] : Methuen, [1910]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellanea ... Never before published ... (London, 1727) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage sentimental, suivi des Lettres d'Yorick a Éliza, par Laurent Sterne, en aglais et en français. (Paris, Amsterdam, chez J. E. Gabriel Dufour, [1799]), by Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries), ed. by Harriet Wragg and Mabel Duckitt (Gutenberg ebook)

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