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• Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1982), by Janet Gurkin Altman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The epistolary novel : its origin, development, decline, and residuary influence. (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Godfrey Frank Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• De roman in brieven, 1740-1840; eene proeve van vergelijkende letterkundige geschiedenis. (Elsevier, 1889), by Jan ten Brink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), by Terry Castle
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  • 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)
• Remarks on Clarissa (1749), by Sarah Fielding (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Clara Howard; In a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: A. Dickins and H. Maxwell, 1801), by Charles Brockden Brown
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• 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
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• Lettere d'una Peruviana (Avignone : Presso Fr. Seguin aîné, stampatore e librajo, 1817., 1817), by Mme de Grafigny and G. L. Deodati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (B. Behr, 1907), by Sophie von La Roche and Kuno Ridderhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The aristocrats : being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in the Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her friend in North Britain, the Countess of Edge and Ross. (John Lane, 1901), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost letters from Lesbos. (R.R. Donnelley, 1902), by Lucy McDowell Milburn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• She who will not when she may (Henry Altemus, 1898), by Eleanor Going Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the dream (G.P. Putnam's Sons :, 1913), by Edna Kingsley Wallace, Margaret Armstrong, and Knickerbocker Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• A year out of life (D. Appleton, 1909), by Mary E. Waller, Amy Richards, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Major Jones's courtship and travels. Comprising all the scenes, incidents and adventures of his courtship, in a series of letters by himself; as well as the humorous narrative of his travels from Georgia to Canada, and back, together with his experience in each town he passed through. (T. B. Peterson and brothers, 1848), by Joseph Jones, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, William Tappan Thompson, and Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evelina (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Fanny Burney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evelina; or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world. (J. M. Dent and company, 1903), by Fanny Burney and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jane Talbot (S. G. Goodrich, 1827), by Charles Brockden Brown, Samuel G. Goodrich, Isaac R. Butts and Co, H.C. Carey & I. Lea (Firm), G. & C. Carvill (Firm), and Bowles and Dearborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dangerous age letters & fragments from a woman's diary (Bell & Cockburn, 1912), by Karin Michaëlis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La estafeta romántica. (Obras de Pérez Galdós, 1899), by Benito Pérez Galdós (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Gorgon Graham : more letters from a self-made merchant to his son (Grosset & Dunlap, 1904), by George Horace Lorimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of William Green (McBride, Nast & Co., 1914), by James W. Foley, Charles Guischard, and Nast & Company McBride (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yours, John Armstrong : a novelette (De Witt C. Owen, 1900), by A. D. Norris and De Witt C. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lover's replies to an Englishwoman's love-letters. (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901), by Mass.) University Press (Cambridge and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The devil's letters to Mary MacLane (Inter-State Book Company, 1903), by Mary MacLane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love letters of a divorced couple (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915), by William Farquhar Payson, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love letters of a mystic (1916), by Alma Newton, August Leu, Eaton and Gettinger, and John Lane Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love letters from the Nile (The Knickerbocker Press, 1910), by Mary Randolph, F. Perlberg, and Knickerbocker Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young lady's entrance into the world (London : Printed for T. Lowndes, No. 77, in Fleet Street, 1778-1779, 1778), by Fanny Burney and Thomas Lowndes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gentlemen: please note, by Randall Garrett, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jigsaw, by Tom McMorrow, illust. by Connell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 2 (of 2): or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others, by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Ernest Christopher Dowson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2): or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others, by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Ernest Christopher Dowson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Grandison, volume 2 (of 2): A series of letters from young persons to their friends, by Madame de Cambon, trans. by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg ebook)
• Drakula: angol regény (in Hungarian), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters of a Japanese schoolboy ("Hashimura Togo"), by Wallace Irwin, illust. by Rollin Kirby (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deklaracio (in Esperanto), by Takeo Arishima, trans. by Tojosato Tooguu (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elsie Lindtner: A sequel to "The Dangerous Age", by Karin Michaëlis, trans. by Beatrice Marshall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Grandison, volume 1 (of 2): A series of letters from young persons to their friends, by Madame de Cambon, trans. by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lettres portugaises: Publiées sur l'édition originale avec une notice préliminaire par Alexandre Piedagnel (in French), by Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues, ed. by Alexandre Piedagnel, contrib. by Mariana Alcoforado (Gutenberg ebook)
• No-Risk Planet, by Stephen Marlowe, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Briefe eines Malers an seine Schwester (in German), by Rosalie Sandvoss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Like Another Helen, by Sydney C. Grier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time Grabber, by Gordon R. Dickson, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mr. Togo: Maid of all Work, by Wallace Irwin, illust. by Rea Irvin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Miss Coote: Exploits d'une fouetteuse britannique racontés par elle-même (in French), by Rosa Belinda Coote (Gutenberg ebook)
• Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le songe d'une femme: roman familier (in French), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Emblems of Fidelity: A Comedy in Letters, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Udo in England: Eine Reiseerzählung (in German), by Marie von Bunsen, illust. by Heinrich Hübner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England; vol. 3 [of 3], by Mrs. Marcet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England; vol. 2 [of 3], by Mrs. Marcet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England; vol. 1 [of 3], by Mrs. Marcet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jacopo Ortisin Viimeiset Kirjeet (in Finnish), by Ugo Foscolo, trans. by Mikko W. Erich (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (in English and French), by Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues, trans. by Edgar Prestage, contrib. by Mariana Alcoforado (Gutenberg ebook)
• Erdsegen: Vertrauliche Sonntagsbriefe eines Bauernknechtes. (in German), by Peter Rosegger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Der letzte Sommer: Eine Erzählung in Briefen (in German), by Ricarda Huch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 3 of 3), by William Pitt Scargill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father: Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by Charles Eustace Merriman, illust. by Fred Kulz (Gutenberg ebook)
• La Incógnita (in Spanish), by Benito Pérez Galdós (Gutenberg ebook)
• Persialaisia kirjeitä (in Finnish), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by J. V. Lehtonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lonely, by Judith Merril, illust. by Virgil Finlay and Lutjens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pamela vainottuna (in Finnish), by Samuel Richardson, trans. by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kahden nuoren aviovaimon muistelmat (in Finnish), by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by L. Onerva (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3), by William Pitt Scargill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les liaisons dangereuses: Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres (in French), by Choderlos de Laclos (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Celestial Hammerlock, by Donald Colvin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Man in a Quandary, by L. J. Stecher, illust. by Martinez (Gutenberg ebook)
• Whiskaboom, by Alan Arkin, illust. by Diehl (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Gleeb for Earth, by Charles Schafhauser, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Take It from Dad, by George Griswold Livermore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten (in German), by Elisabeth von Heyking (Gutenberg ebook)
• Susan, by Ernest Oldmeadow, illust. by Frank Haviland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kirjekyyhkynen (in Finnish), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Joel Lehtonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4: A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society., by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Thomas Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters, by Isabel Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth, by W. R. H. Trowbridge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 1 of 3), by William Pitt Scargill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Corner of Harley Street: Being Some Familiar Correspondence of Peter Harding, M.D., by H. H. Bashford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sylph, Volume I and II, by Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Gutenberg ebook)
• Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady, by Catharine Trotter, contrib. by Robert Adams Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters of the Motor Girl, by Ethellyn Gardner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lettres persanes, tome II (in French), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, contrib. by André Lefèvre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Living Up to Billy, by Elizabeth Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tabby, by Winston K. Marks, illust. by Rudolph Palais (Gutenberg ebook)
• "And That's How It Was, Officer", by Ralph Sholto (Gutenberg ebook)
• High Man, by Jay Clarke, illust. by Sandy Kossin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lettres persanes, tome I (in French), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, contrib. by André Lefèvre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript, by Samuel Richardson, ed. by R. F. Brissenden (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Handling the Data, by M. I. Mayfield, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Untechnological Employment, by Ed M. Clinton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy.", by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aurelian; or, Rome in the Third Century, by William Ware (Gutenberg ebook)
• August First, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wings of Icarus: Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher, by Laurence Alma-Tadema (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7), by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pamela, Volume II, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• People of the Whirlpool: From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife, by Mabel Osgood Wright (Gutenberg ebook)

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