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• 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)

• Fennel and Rue, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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