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Letter writing

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• Authorship

• Letters

• Letter writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Letter writing -- History
• Letter writing -- Juvenile fiction
• Commercial correspondence
• Letter writing in literature
• Letter writing, Dutch
• Letter writing, Italian

• English letter writing
• Letter writing, English
• Writing of letters

• The Art of Social Letter Writing: Twelve Charming Studies (Chicago: Correct English Pub. Co., c1909), by Josephine Turck Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (Oxford: Emberlin and Son, c1890), by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg text)
• A Letter Book, Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)

• Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: A Guide to Correct Writing, Showing How to Express Written Thought Plainly, Rapidly, Elegantly and Correctly in Social and Business Life (ninth edition; Chicago: Moses Warren and Co., 1876), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: A Guide to Correct Writing, Showing How to Express Written Thought Plainly, Rapidly, Elegantly and Correctly in Social and Business Life (ninth edition; Chicago: Moses Warren and Co., 1876), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A New Edition, Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished (3 volumes; Westminster: A. Constable, 1895), ed. by James Gairdner (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509: New Complete Library Edition (6 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus; Exeter: J. G. Commin, 1904), ed. by James Gairdner (HTML and zipped PDF at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• The Blissylvania Post-Office (New York et al.: Benziger Bros., c1897), by Marion Ames Taggart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Complete Caligraph Instructor: or, How to Become Expert in Typewriting (St. Louis: A. J. Barnes, 1890), by Mrs. Arthur J. Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of Documentary Reproduction (full serial archives)

• Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2006), ed. by Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
  • PDF at loc.gov

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Stencil Duplicated Newspaper (Hood River, OR: The authors, c1941), by Frederick Stuart Knight and Damon Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• University Copyright Policies in ARL Libraries (ARL SPEC Kit #138, 1987), by Kenneth D. Crews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final Report of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, July 31, 1978, by United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (HTML and PDF at digital-law-online.info)

• Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1982), by Janet Gurkin Altman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Die Renaissance in Briefen von Dichtern, Künstlern, Staatsmännern, Gelehrten und Frauen (2 volumes, in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1909), ed. by Lothar Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, by Albrecht Dürer, trans. by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)

• Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: A. Dickins and H. Maxwell, 1801), by Charles Brockden Brown
  • page images at Virginia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Kempton-Wace Letters (London: Mills and Boon, c1903), by Jack London and Anna Strunsky Walling (Gutenberg text)
• The Kempton-Wace Letters (New York and London: Macmillan, 1903), by Jack London and Anna Strunsky Walling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and Freindship (title spelled as Austen wrote it), by Jane Austen (hypertext at pemberley.com)
• Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, by Jane Austen (Gutenberg text)
• The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters From a Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town (published separately from a similarly-named sequel; London: Printed for R. Griffiths and G. Woodfall, 1749), by Mary Collyer
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Letters From Felicia to Charlotte, Volume Second (London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1749), by Mary Collyer (multiple formats at Google)

• Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1982), by Janet Gurkin Altman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), by Terry Castle
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1940), by Frank Gees Black (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1940), by Frank Gees Black (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ausonius, With an English Translation (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919-1921), by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, contrib. by Paulinus of Pella
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (includes Paulinus of Pella's "Eucharisticus"): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• The Heroides, by Ovid, trans. by A. S. Kline (HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
• Heroides and Amores (in English and Latin; London: W. Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Ovid, trans. by Grant Showerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: H. G. Bohn, 1851), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)
• The Greyson Letters: Selections From the Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson. Esq. (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1857), by Henry Rogers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Greyson Letters: Selections From the Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson. Esq. (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1859), by Henry Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Tunisie en l'An 2000: Lettres d'un Touriste (in French; Paris and Brusssels: G. Van Oest, 1922), by Louis Benjamin Charles Carton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters on England, by Voltaire, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Letters on the English, by Voltaire (HTML at Bartleby)

• Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by José Luis Venegas (PDF at Ohio State)
• Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1982), by Janet Gurkin Altman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)

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