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Letter writing

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• Authorship

• Letters

• 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, by Lewis Carroll (HTML at FireBlade)
• 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)

• The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A New Edition, Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished (3 volumes; Westminster: A. Constable, 1895), ed.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)

• 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 Tony 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)

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

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

• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)

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