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• Court traité sur l'art épistolaire [ressource électronique] / ([Sorel, Québec? : s.n.], 1863), by J. B. Meilleur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court traité sur l'art épistolaire [ressource électronique] / (Montréal : F. Cinq-Mars, 1845), by J. B. Meilleur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches [electronic resource] / (Boston : Carter & Hendee, 1830), by Silas Pinchney Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court traité sur l'art épistolaire [ressource électronique] / (Montréal : P. Gendron, 1849), by J. B. Meilleur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre de M. Cantwel. ([S.l. : s.n., 1755]), by M. Cantwel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unaddressed letters. (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1901), ed. by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (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 many others. (London : Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1814), ed. by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Catalogues of manuscripts, letters, and autographs, 1826-1840] (London, T. Thorpe, [1826-1840]), by Thomas Thorp (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre à une jeune dame sur l'inoculation de la petite vérole ... ([S.l. : s.n.], 1756), by Jean Soret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera di un cittadino alli cittadini dubbiosi o mal consigliati della nazione Piemontese / Ministro del Culto. (Casale : Lodovico Maffei, [1799?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta dedicatoria que ofrece al ilustrissimo señor Doctor Don Pedro Morcillo Rubio de Auñon ... / ([S.l. : s.n.], [17--?]), by José Julián Carrión y Morcillo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre de M. Hosty, à M. ***, sur la mort du fils cadet de M. de Caze. ([S.l. : s.n., 1759]), by Hosty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen apologetico de la defensa critica a la dedicatoria de un bibliopola. (En Lerida : por Don Candido Esdrujulo, 1725), by Cándido Esdrújulo and ant. pos. BHI BH FOA 614 Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta del maestro de niños a Don Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo ... (En Zaragoza : [s.n.], 1713), by Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo and ant. pos. BHI BH FOA 614 Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 50 ausgewählte Briefe der Königin Luise von Preussen; (Hanover, Hahn, 1909), by Queen Luise, ed. by Ludwig Wülker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Sir Charles Grandison : in a series of letters / (Dublin : Printed for Thomas Walker ..., 1780), by Samuel Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carteggio : parte seconda--1822-1831 / (Milano : U. Hoepli, 1921), by Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Gallavresi, and Giovanni Sforza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carteggio : parte prima--1803-1821 / (Milano : U. Hoepli, 1912), by Alessandro Manzoni, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Giuseppe Gallavresi, and Giovanni Sforza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alexander L. Kielland: Breve til hans datter. (Kristiania : H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1909), by Alexander Lange Kielland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Lord Byron. (London, John Murray; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898-1901), by George Byron and Rowland E. Prothero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abraham Lincoln, his autobiographical writings now brought together for the first time and prefaced with an introductory comment (New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1948), by Abraham Lincoln, John Coulter, and Paul M. Angle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe aus Wien / (Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, [1916]), by Wilhelm Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hu hai wen zhuan / ([China : s.n., Tongzhi 5 [1866]]), by Chang Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• La lettera a traverso i tempi / (Milano : G. Agnelli, 1897), by Pilade Beltrame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe aus allen Jahrhunderten der Christlichen Zeitrechnung : Gewählt, übersetzt, und zur Belehrung und Erbauung seiner Mitschriften herausgegeben / (München : Joseph Lentner Buchhandler, 1800-1804), by Johann Michael Sailer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing as a form of literature in ancient and modern times. (Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1895), by David Watson Rannie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der rechtsschutz des briefes in der Schweiz. (Basel, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1908), by Hermann Rennefahrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der rechtsschutz des briefes in der Schweiz. (Basel, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1908), by Hans Giesker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le style éspistolaire: Cicéron, Pline le jeune, Saint François de Sales, Balzac, Voiture, Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Maintenon, Madame du Deffand, Voltaire. (Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 1901), by Hervé de Broc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chesterfield's letters / (Boston : Ginn & Co., 1893), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Edwin Ginn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The household of Glen Holly, (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1888), by Lucy C. Lillie, Alice Barber Stephens, and Harper & Brothers. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre d’un Citoyen à un curé de Nancy : sur une affaire importante [sur la contestation du Premier Chirurgien, avec les Religieux de la Charité] (A Nancy : [s.n.], 1758), by Pierre de Gennes, Germain Pichaut de La Martinière, and ant. pos. BHI BH MED 12525 Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre a M. Louis, secretaire perpétuel de l'Académie royale de chirurgie, [et] c., pour justifier le rapport des causes de mort de Claudine Rouge / (A Lyon : de l'Imprimerie d'Aimé de la Roche, aux Halles de la Grenette, 1768), by Jean Faissole, Aimé de La Roche, Claudine Rouge, Antoine Louis, and Claude Champeaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yours, John Armstrong : a novelette / (Dixton, Ill. : De Witt C. Owen, 1900), by A. D. Norris and De Witt C. pbl Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre de M. le Marquis de Carraccioli a M. d'Alembert. ([S.l. : s.n., ca. 1781]), by Louis Antoine de Caraccioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta, que escriue el M.R.P.F. Joseph Morcate, lector jubilado en el Conuento de San Ildefonso, del Orden de Predicadores de la ciudad de Zaragoza, satisfaciendo à una duda, que se le propone. ([Zaragoza? : s.n., 1754?]), by José Morcate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre a un ami de province, sur l'inoculation ([S.l. : s.n., 1763]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoranda and letters on Bechuanaland / (London : William Clowes and Sons, 1883, 1879), by Bartle Frere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lover's replies to an Englishwoman's love-letters. (New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901), by Mass.) prt University Press (Cambridge and Mead & Company. pbl Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haedong myŏngga chʻŏktok / (Kyŏngsŏng] : Kwangdong Sŏguk, [1914]), by Hŭi-sŏ Ku (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Una questione lombarda e una questione piemontese : lettere all'amico T ..... /, by Achille Giuseppe Ruffoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valuable letters and historical documents : embracing the General Andrew Jackson papers relating to the War of 1812, the Calhoun controversy, the Seminole War, and the Bank of the United States / (Philadelphia, 1921), by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of certain passages in a discourse, on occasion of the death of Dr. Priestley, &c. (Boston, Printed and published by T. B. Wait, sold by W. Wells, 1809), by Thomas Belsham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Threatening communications : Hearing before the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, Thursday, February 16, 1939, H.R. 3230. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1939), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of wit, politicks and morality. (London, Printed for J. Hartley, 1701), by John Savage, Thomas. trl Cheek, H---- H----, M. de Fontenelle, Roger de Rabutin Bussy, Aristaenetus, Antonio de Guevara, and Guido Bentivoglio, ed. by Abel Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meiji shokan bunhan. (Tōkyō Kaitakusha, Meiji 33 [1900]), by Tokyo Kaitakusha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Formulaires de lettres du XIIe, du XIIIe et du XIVe siècle, (Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1890-97), by Charles Victor Langlois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter from the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy-Seal, in answer to His Grace the Duke of Ormond's letter of November the 12th, 1681 : about His Lordships observations and reflections upon the Earl of Castle-Haven's Memoires concerning the rebellion of Ireland. (London : Printed for N.P., 1682), by Arthur Annesley Anglesey and P. N. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe aus allen Jahrhunderten der christlichen Zeitrechnung. (Sulzbach, J. E. v. Seidel, 1832-), by Johann Michael Sailer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Joannis Calvini, Theod. Bezae, Henrici IV, regis, aliorumque illius aevi hominum literae quaedam nondum editae : in memoriam sacrorum Genevensium ante tria saecula emendatorum ex autographis in Bibliotheca Ducali Gothana / (Lipsiae : Sumptibus Frid. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1835), by Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider, King of France Henry IV, Théodore de Bèze, and Jean Calvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The friendly craft; a collection of American letters. (New York, Macmillan, 1910, c1908), by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettere inedite di santi, papi, principi, (Torino, Tip. Eredi Botta, 1861), by Luigi Cibrario (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of letters for young people, (New York, London, The Century co., [c1924]), by Stella Stewart Center, ed. by Lilian Margaret Saul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in some famous letters ... (London, Burleigh, 1899), by John Cann Bailey, Edward FitzGerald, Charles Lamb, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Swift, Mary Wortley Montagu, Thomas Gray, and William Cowper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters of distinguished musicians: Gluck, Haydn, P. E. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1867), by Ludwig Nohl, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Carl Maria von Weber, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Christoph Willibald Gluck, trans. by Grace Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance complète de Madame, duchesse d' Orléans ... (Paris, Charpentier, 1855), by Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des lettres missives, (Montpellier, Imprimerie générale du Midi, 1911), by Jules Valéry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres de Pline le jeune : tome premier (A Riom et a Clermont : chez Landriot et Rousset ..., 1799), by Cayo Plinio Segundo, imp. Belin, imp. Rousset, and imp. Landriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres de Pline le jeune : tome second (A Riom et a Clermont : chez Landriot et Rousset ..., 1799), by Cayo Plinio Segundo, imp. Belin, imp. Rousset, and imp. Landriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauenbriefe aller zeiten / (Stuttgart : C. Krabbe, [1910]), by Bernhard Ihringer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Auserlesene geistvolle Briefe der Reformatoren und sonstiger bedeutender Männer der evangelischen Kirche : zur christlichen Erbauung und Belehrung / (Stuttgart : C. Cammerer (früher H.W. Beck), 1862), by C. E. Renner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreihundert und achtzehn Briefe berühmter und geistreicher Männer und Frauen : zur vielseitigen Bildung des Stils, des Tones und des Geschmacks im brieflichen Umgange / (Berlin : A.W. Hayn, 1835), by Johann Daniel Friedrich Rumpf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Eigenthum an Briefen nach österreichischem Rechte : Vortrag gehalten in der Juristischen Gesellschaft am 11. März 1879 / (Wien : Manz, 1879), by Emil Steinbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary correspondence of the late poet, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Esq. embracing an interesting series of letters, mostly on literary topics, from many of the most prominent American authors in fiction, history, and poetry, including Eugene Field, William D. Howells, Bayard Taylor ... &c.; also original autograph manuscript of Edmund Clarence Stedman's prize poem, and a fine series of his letters, and the original manuscript of Richard Henry Stoddard's last poem, together with an interesting series of his letter to be sold Friday afternoon and evening, April 19, 1912 ... (Philadelphia, S.T. Freeman & Co., [1912]), by S. V. Henkels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe (Leipzig, Insel, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Richard Oehler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Praestantium ac eruditorum virorum epistolae ecclesiasticiae et theologicae, / (Amstelaedami [i.e. Amsterdam] : Franciscus Halma, 1704), by Jacobus Arminius, Gererdua Joannes Vossius, Konrad Vorst, Jan Uytenbogaert, Philippis van Limborch, Hugo Grotius, Simon Episcopus, Caspar van Baerle, and Jacobus Arminus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln; passages from his speeches and letters; (New York, The Century Co., 1925), by Abraham Lincoln and Richard Watson Gilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Præstantium ac eruditorum virorum epistolæ ecclesiasticæ et theologicæ varii argumenti, inter quas eminenteæ, quæ Giac. Arminio, Conr. Vorstio, Sim. Episcopio, Hvg. Grotio, Casp. Barlæo, conscriptæ sunt. (Amsterdami, : apud Henricum Dendrinum, 1660), by Philippus van Limborch and Christiaan Hartsoeker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der hurtige Briefsteller : das ist, ausführlich-deutliche Anweisung in allerhand Zeit, Freud, Leid, Streit-Fällen und Begebenheiten einen zierlichen Brief, ohne allzulanges Nachsinnen, zu Papier zu bringen, und dadurch sein Vorhaben nachdenklichst auszudrücken, damit man den vorgestellten Zweck, bey Hohen und Niedern desto füglicher erlangen möge / (Nürnberg : In Verlegung Martin Endters, 1687.), by Wolffgang Brauser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Recht an Briefen / (Berlin : C. Heymann, 1893), by Josef Kohler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du secret des lettres ... (Bruxelles, Bruylant-Christophe & cie, 1890), by Eugène Hanssens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagners briefe nach zeitfolge und inhalt. Ein beitrag zur lebensgeschichte des meisters. (Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1905), by Richard Wagner and Wilhelm Altmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pakiṇṇaka mettā cā / (Ranʻ kunʻ : Haṃsāvatī Sa taṅʻʺ cā tuikʻ, 1906), by Ma Mi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber den Briefbeförderungsvertrag und den Eigentumserwerb an Briefen / (Königsberg i. P. : Beerwald, 1914), by Bruno Schönfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A selection from the literary correspondence of the late James R. Osgood, esq., publishers, of Boston ... (New York, Smith, 1895), by James R. Osgood, contrib. by George D. Smith Book Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riordinamento dell'epistolario di A. Traversari : con lettere inedite e note storico-cronologiche / (Firenze : L. Franceschini, 1898-1903), by Francesco Paolo Luiso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettre à Monsieur Dutheil, le 5 juin 1755., by Gabriel-Jean de la Porte Dutheil and Etienne-François Choiseul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre de M. DuVerron, Vlles. 15 Juillet 1786., by M. DuVerron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irodalmi levelestár, leírta Váczy János és Rédeyné Hoffmann Mária. (Budapest [A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Könyvtára], 1923-), by Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Mária Rédey, and János Váczy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autograph letters and historical documents. (London.), by Maggs Bros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qing dai ming ren shu du : 8 juan / (Shanghai : Hui wen tang shu ju, Minguo 13 [1924]), by Qinshishanren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and letters of Robert Browning, (Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1898), by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, Robert Browning, and Mifflin and Company. pbl Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hedge fence / (Boston : D. Lothrop and Co., c1884), by Pansy and D. Lothrop & Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unaddressed letters. (London and New York, J. Lane, 1904), by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tryon's letters upon several occasions ... by Tho. Tryon. (London : Printed for Geo. Conyers and Eliz. Harris, 1700), by Thomas Tryon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Familiar and courtly letters written by Monsieur Voiture to persons of the greatest honour, wit, and quality of both sexes in the court of France ; made English by Mr. Dryden, Tho. Cheek, Esq., Mr. Dennis, Henry Cromwel, Esq., Jos. Raphson, Esq., Dr. -, &c. ; with twelve select epistles out of Aristanetus, translated from the Greek ; some select letters of Pliny, Jun and Monsieur Fontanelle, translated by Mr. Tho. Brown ; and a collection of original letters lately written on several subjects, by Mr. T. Brown ; to which is added a collection of letters of friendship, and other occasional letters, written by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly, Mr. -, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Dennis, and other hands. (London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe ... and sold by J. Nutt ..., 1700), by Monsieur de Voiture, Thomas Brown, John Dryden, William Congreve, and William Wycherley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Burrhi impetus juveniles et quædam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolæ. (Oxoniæ : Excudebat Leonardus Lichfield ..., 1643), by John Borough and Philip Bacon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three letters sent from Rome to some of the principall actors of the rebellion in Ireland: Dated 4. of Ianuary. 1642. after the Romane Account. Shewing their zealous affections and advice to their rebellious proceedings, whereof the two first were written in Irish and translated into English according to the originall coppies. (Dublin : printed by VVlliam Bladen, 1642. [i.e. 1643]), by Francis Farrell, Francis Maguire, and Bonaventura Ô Connye (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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