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A Treasury of the World's Great Letters from Ancient Days to Our Own Time: Containing the Characteristic and Crucial Communications, and Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence, of Many of the Outstanding Figures of World History, and Some Notable Contemporaries
by M. Lincoln Schuster. 566 pgs.

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In Praise of Letters

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Classification of Letters by Subject

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Letters of Long Ago [from 334 B.C. to A.D. 1675]

Alexander the Great And King Darius III Exchange Defiance for The Mastery of the World: [a Series of Letters]

Diogenes Declines to Render a Command Performance for Alexander The Great: [a Letter to Aristippus]

Paul the Apostle Exhorts the Corinthians With the Tongues of Men and Of Angels: [extracts from I Corinthians 1, 2, 7, 13, 16]

Acrippina, Nero's Mother, Pleads to Her Emperor-Son for Her Own Life

The Younger Pliny Asks the Emperor Trajan How to Arrest and Punish "The Depraved and Excessive Superstition" Of The Early Christians

Aurelian, Emperor of Rome, Orders Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, to Surrender, And She Defies Him: [an Exchange of Letters]

Saint Jerome Beholds the Decline and Fall Of Rome Before His Eyes: [a Letter to a Friend]

Heloise and Abelard Immortalize, in Their Learned And Passionate Letters, One of History's Enduring Love Stories: [an Exchange of Letters]

Christopher Columbus Reports His First Impressions of America: [a Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, Treasurer of King Ferdinand of Spain]

Eonardo Da Vinci Asks the Duke of Milan For a Job

Michelangelo Negotiates Terms with His Holiness the Pope: [a Letter to Maestro Giuliano, Architect of The Vatican]

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Exchange Endearments and Entreaties: [an Exchange of Letters]

Sir Walter Raleigh Bids Farewell to His Wife a Few Hours Before He Expects To Be Executed

Francis Bacon from the Tower of London Pleads for Mercy with King James I

Ninon De L'Enclos Tells the Marquis De SÉvignÉ What Makes Love So Dangerous

Blaise Pascal Asks a Colleague to Confirm A Scientific Prediction: [a Letter to PÉrier]

Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, Rebukes A Former Teacher for Inflicting Upon Him "Things . . . Hard to Understand And Very Easy to Forget": [a Letter to Mullah Sahe]

Mme De SÉvignÉ Tells the Tale of a Royal Supper at Chantilly: [a Letter to Her Daughter, Mme De Crignan]

Baruch Spinoza, Challenged by a Former Pupil to Prove That His Philosophy Is Not "A Mere Illusion and a Chimera,": [an Exchange of Letters with Albert Burgh]

Part Two: Letters of Not So Long Ago [from 1747 to 1896]

Lord Chesterfield Lays Down Some Precepts for His Natural Son

Samuel Johnson Spurns the Proffered Help Of the Earl of Chesterfield

Samuel Johnson Congratulates an Old Friend on an Ignominious Marriage: [a Letter to Hester Lynch Thrale]

Du Barry Makes a Business Proposition To An Admirer: [a Letter to M. Duval]

James Boswell Touches the Keys in Unison With Voltaire: [a Letter to His Friend William Johnson Temple]

Two Letters of Voltaire Written Fifty Years Apart: [addressed to James Boswell and Olympe Dunoyer]

The Loves, the Letters, The Wit and Wisdom Of Benjamin Franklin: [a Series]

Thomas Jefferson Prepares to Write The Declaration of Independence: [a Letter to His Friend William Fleming]

George Washington Answers His Critics In Congress and from a Cold, Bleak Hill At Valley Forge Defends His Naked And Distressed Troops

George Washington Spurns the Subtle Offer of a Crown: [a Letter to Colonel Nichola]

Thomas Paine Brands George Washington As Treacherous in Private Friendship And a Hypocrite in Public Life

Robespierre Promises Danton Devotion Unto Death

Joseph Priestley Returns Blessings For Curses in a Letter to His Neighbors Of Birmingham

The Loves and Letters Of Napoleon Bonaparte: [a Cycle of Correspondence, Chiefly With The Empress Josephine, the Countess Marie Walewska, and the Empress Marie Louise, From 1796 to 1814]

The Devotions and Despairs Of Ludwig Van Beethoven: [a Series of Letters to His "Immortal Be Loved" and His Brothers Karl and Johann]

Aaron Burr Challenges Alexander Hamilton to Meet Him on the Field Of Honor

Michael Faraday Apologizes for His Inability to Compose a Love Letter: [a Letter to Sarah Barnard]

The Loves and Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: [a Series Covering Four Years]

Percy Bysshe Shelley Invites John Keats To Join Him in Italy

John Keats Acknowledges the Invitation To Visit Percy Bysshe Shelley at Pisa

John Keats Hesitates on the Threshold Of A Career in Business: [a Letter to His Sister Fanny]

John Keats Tells Fanny Brawne He Cannot Live Without Her

Lord Byron Tells the Countess Guiccioli That He Cannot Cease to Love Her

William Cullen Bryant Breaks the News To Mother

Victor Hugo Casts Himself Humbly at The Feet of AdÈle Foucher

Franz Schubert Humbly Petitions His Royal Highness for the Post of Assistant Conductor at the Imperial Court Of Vienna

Henry D. Thoreau Explains to Ralph Waldo Emerson That Divine Commodities Are Near and Cheap

The Love Letters Of Robert Browning And Elizabeth Barrett: [a Series]

Edgar Allan Poe Reveals the Secret Of: [a Letter to George Eveleth]

Dostoevsky Describes His Sensations When He Had but One Minute to Live: [a Letter to His Brother Mihail]

Three Typical Letters Of Abraham Lincoln: [to His Stepbrother, an Old Comrade, And Mrs. Bixby]

Ralph Waldo Emerson Greets Walt Whitman at the Beginning of a Great Career

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Implores Napoleon III to Pardon Victor Hugo

Thomas Babington Macaulay Peers into The Future and Predicts That the American Republic Will Be Laid Waste By Barbarians in the Twentieth Century: [a Letter to Henry S. Randall]

John Brown Bids Farewell to His Family The Night Before He is Executed

Thomas Huxley Strips Himself of the Hopes And Consolations of the Mass of Mankind: [a Letter to Charles Kingsley]

Richard Wagner Demands an Immediate Loan of Ten Thousand Francs From One of His Admirers: [an Exchange of Letters with Baron Robert Von Hornstein]

Friedrich Nietzsche Confides a Secret To Richard Wagner

John Stuart Mill Rescues His Greatest Rival In Philosophy, Herbert Spencer, From Impending Ruin

Charles Darwin is Overjoyed to See a Theory Almost Proved True: [a Letter to Alfred Russel Wallace]

Emily Dickinson Finds Ecstasy in the Mere Sense of Living: [a Letter to Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson]

Benjamin Disraeli Offers to Free Thomas Carlyle from Common Cares in The Sunset of His Life

Sarah Bernhardt Tells Victorien Sardou Why Paris is a Vast Desert of Desolation Without Him

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Receives an Involuntary Confession from His Benefactress, Nadejda Philaretovna Von Meck: [an Exchange of Letters]

Guy De Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff Intrigue Each Other's Curiosity: [an Exchange of Letters]

Bill Nye Becomes Postmaster of Laramie, Wyoming, and Helps the American Republic March Onward and Upward With the Arts: [a Letter to General Frank Hatton]

P. T. Barnum Offers General Ulysses S. Grant A Job

William Randolph Hearst, Fresh From Harvard, Seeks Fun, Fame, and Fortune With a Newspaper of His Own: [a Letter to His Father]

Mark Twain Refuses to Sanction a Dramatization of Tom Sawyer: [a Letter to Number 1365]

Robert Louis Stevenson Defends a Saint And Hero Who Tasted of Our Common Frailty: [an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. C. M. Hyde Of Honolulu]

Pierre Curie Asks Marie Sklodovska, A Former Governess and a Student Of Physics, to Be His Wife

Paul Gauguin and August Strindberg Compare Notes on Art, Barbarism, and Civilization: [an Exchance of Letters]

William James Discovers That He Has Omitted the Deepest Principle of Human Nature from His Textbook on Psychology: [a Letter to His Students at Radcliffe College]

Part Three: Letters of Yesterday and Today [from 1898 to 1937]

Émile Zola Challenges the President Of The French Republic to Restore Faith In Human Justice

Joseph Conrad Finds That Pages Accumulate and the Story Stands Still: [a Letter to Edward Garnett]

George Bernard Shaw And Ellen Terry Carry On A Romantic Correspondence For Twenty-Five Years: [a Series of Letters]

Henri PoincarÉ and Marie Curie Recommend Albert Einstein for a Professorship At Zurich Institute

Captain Robert Falcon Scott Tells the British Public That "These Rough Notes And Our Dead Bodies Must Tell The Tale"

Rupert Brooke Tells an English Friend About the Romantic Splendors of The South Seas: [a Letter to Edward Marsh]

D. H. Lawrence Advises a Friend on Love And Marriage: [a Letter to John Middleton Murry]

Leon Trotsky Warns an Old Socialist Comrade to Heed the Muted Rumble Of Approaching Events

Nicholas Ii, the Last Czar of Imperial Russia, Is Assured by His Wife, on the Eve Of The Revolution, That All is Well At Home

Lenin Warns the Communist Party That Stalin is Concentrating Too Much Power in His Own Hands: [lenin's Deathbed Testament]

Bartolomeo Vanzetti Bids Farewell To Dante Sacco on the Eve of His Execution

Christopher Morley Inspires the Tale of A Wayside Inn: [a Letter to T. A. Daly]

H. L. Mencken Admits to a Philosopher That God Has Treated Him with Vast Politeness: [a Letter to Will Durant]

Lion Feuchtwanger Addresses an Inquiry To the Nazi Occupant of His Confiscated House: [an Open Letter to Mr. X]

Thomas Mann Indicts the Hitler Regime For Its Secret and Open Crimes: [a Letter to the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty Of the University of Bonn]

Acknowledgments

Index
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A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the Arts
by Wallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer. 636 pgs.

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Part One Letters of Long Ago: [from 49 B.C. to A.D. 1670]

Cicero and Caesar: A Fatal Friendship: [a Series of Letters]

Cicero Trembles for His Life, but is Sustained by the Purity of His Conscience: [a Letter to His Friend Atticus]

Caesar Warns Cicero to Stand Aloof From Civil Strife

Cicero Entertains a Formidable Guest: [a Letter to His Friend Atticus]

Seneca Denounces the Modern Treatment Of Slaves and Urges a Return to The Humane Ways of the Old Romans: [a Letter to His Friend Lucilius]

The Younger Pliny Describes the Death Of His Uncle During an Eruption of Vesuvius: [a Letter to Tacitus]

Lucius Verus Warns Marcus Aurelius Against Treachery, and Marcus Re- Turns a Philosopher's Answer: [an Exchange of Letters]

Saint Patrick Excoriates a Barbaric King For Slaughtering and Enslaving The Christians of Ireland: [a Letter to Coroticus, King of Ail]

Sidonius Limns the Portrait of a Roman Sycophant: [a Letter to His Son Apollinaris]

Dante Alighieri, After Fifteen Years Of Exile, Spurns a "Gracious Recall" To His Native Florence: [a Letter to a Friend]

Petrarch Climbs to the Top of Mont Ven- Toux and Looks Upon the Grandeur Of The Human Soul: [a Letter to Fra Dionisio Roberti]

Catherine of Siena Pleads with the Pope To End the Babylonian Captivity: [a Letter to Gregory Xi]

Joan of Arc, Before the Battle of OrlÉans, Commands the English to Surrender

Pius II Tells Rodrigo Borgia That a Cardinal Should Be Above Reproach

Lorenzo the Magnificent Plays Polonius To His Son: [a Letter to Giovanni De' Medici]

Niccolo Machiavelli Varies the Pleasures Of His Country Exile by Composing The Prince: [a Letter to Francesco Vettori]

Martin Luther Denies That He is a Heretic, But Stands by His Theses: [a Letter to Leo X]

Erasmus Refuses to Write Against Luther And Counsels the Pope to Clean House: [a Letter to Adrian Vi]

Baber, First of the "Moguls," Describes The Failure of an Attempt to Poison Him: [a Letter to a Friend]

The Tragic History Of Mary, Queen of Scots: [a Series of Letters]

Queen Elizabeth Tells James VI of Scotland That She Was Not Responsible for His Mother's "Miserable Accident"

James VI of Scotland Commends Queen Elizabeth's Honorable Behavior

Queen Elizabeth Tells off a Proud Prelate: [a Letter to Dr. Richard Cox]

John Donne Makes Account of His "Planetary and Erratic Fortune": [a Letter to Sir Henry Goodere]

Galileo Observes Marvelous Things in The Heavens: [a Letter to Belisario Vinta]

Dorothy Osborne Envisions a Contented Marriage with Her Lover: [a Letter to Sir William Temple]

Queen Christina of Sweden, Before Renouncing Protestantism, Decides To Abdicate: [a Letter to Pierre Chanut]

Samuel Pepys Recites the Terrors of The Great Plague: [a Letter to Lady Elizabeth Carteret]

Roger Williams, in His Old Age, Expatiates On Tolerance and the Founding Of Rhode Island: [a Letter to a Friend]

Madame De SÉvignÉ Springs a Surprise on A Country Cousin: [a Letter to Monsieur De Coulanges]

Part Two Letters of Not So Long Ago: [from 1704 to 1886]

Marlborough, After the Battle of Blenheim, Rushes News to His Wife

Queen Anne Gives Directions for Her Hus- Band's Funeral: [a Letter to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough]

Jonathan Swift Rallies a Great Patron Of Letters on His Disinterestedness: [a Letter to Lord Halifax]

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Goes to A Turkish Bath in Turkey: [a Letter to a Friend]

Madame Retails the Intrigues and Scan- Dals of the Court of Louis XV: [a Letter to the Raugravine Louisa]

Thomas Gray Outlines a Travel Book That He Never Intends to Write: [a Letter to Thomas Wharton]

Madame De Pompadour Protests to the Pope That She is Now a Good Woman: [a Letter to Benedict Xiv]

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Madame D'Épinay Lay Down Their Rules of Friendship: [an Exchange of Letters]

Catherine the Great Details the Plot That Made Her Empress of Russia: [a Letter to Count Stanislaus Poniatowski]

Laurence Sterne Bids David Garrick Return To the Stage

Samuel Johnson Stands His Ground in Show- Ing Up a Hoax: [a Letter to James Macpherson]

Horace Walpole On Politics and Literature: [a Series of Letters]

Horace Walpole Sees More Than America Lost in the Revolutionary War: [a Letter to Sir Horace Mann]

Horace Walpole Casts a Vote Against The Fame of Samuel Johnson: [a Letter to Miss Berry]

Lafayette, on His Arrival in America, Writes Home of This Veritable Utopia: [a Letter to His Wife]

Alexander Hamilton Deplores the Falling Off of the Character of Congress: [a Letter to George Washington]

Benjamin Franklin Proposes Marriage to A French Widow: [a Letter to Madame HelvÉtius]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leaves Salzburg in a Fury: [a Letter to His Father]

William Cowper Ponders a Point in Anthro- Pology: [a Letter to the Reverend John Newton]

Gilbert White Writes the Autobiography Of His Pet Tortoise: [a Letter to His Niece]

Ch'Ien Lung, Emperor of China, Refuses Great Britain's Demand for Commercial Concessions: [a Letter to George Iii]

Camille Desmoulins Bids Farewell to His Wife on the Eve of His Execution

Charles Lamb, After His Sister Mary Has Murdered Their Mother, Begs Samuel Taylor Coleridge for the Consolations of Religion: [an Exchange of Letters]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Fried- Rich Von Schiller Discuss the Prog- Ress of Faust: [an Exchange of Letters]

William Blake Has an Apocalyptic Vision Of Eternity: [a Letter to John Flaxman]

Charles Lamb Sees Snakes by Candlelight: [a Letter to Thomas Manning]

Toussaint L'Ouverture Commands Ruthless Warfare Against the French Soldiers In Haiti: [a Letter to General Dessalines]

Lord Nelson Sends Emma Hamilton a Last Pledge of Love Before the Battle Of Trafalgar

Two Letters Of Lord Byron: [addressed to Henry Drury and John Cam Hobhouse]

Lord Byron Swims the Hellespont and Rambles on About His Travels: [a Letter to Henry Drury]

Lord Byron Informs a Friend of His Own Death: [a Letter to John Cam Hobhouse]

Madame De StaËl Begs Napoleon to Revoke Her Exile

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pours Out The Agonies of a Drug Addict: [a Letter to Joseph Cottle]

Dolly Madison Escapes with the State Papers Before the British Capture Washington: [a Letter to Her Sister Anna]

Napoleon, After Waterloo, Asks Sanctuary Of the English: [a Letter to the Prince Regent]

Jane Austen Declines a Royal Invitation To Change Her Style: [a Letter to J. S. Clarke]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Faced With Debtors' Prison, Begs a Loan: [a Letter to Samuel Rogers]

Sir Walter Scott, Calm and Temperate As Ever, Faces His Financial Ruin: [a Letter to John Gibson Lockhart]

The Love Letters Of Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle

Jane Welsh Assures Thomas Carlyle That She Will Be "Really a Very Meek-Tempered Wife"

Thomas Carlyle Vows That They Will Live But for Each Other

John Randolph of Roanoke Writes a Disser- Tation Upon Cold Lamb: [a Letter to John Marshall]

Thomas Carlyle Relates How John Stuart Mill's Carelessness Caused the Destruction of the Manuscript of The French Revolution: [a Letter to His Brother John]

Benjamin Disraeli Gives a Political Opponent Blow for Blow: [a Letter to Daniel O'Connell]

HonorÉ De Balzac, Paying a Visit to George Sand, Finds Her Smoking a Cigar: [a Letter to Madame Hanska]

Thomas De Quincey, Pursued by His Debtors, Goes into Hiding: [a Letter to William Tait]

George Sand Returns to France With Chopin, After a Hectic Winter in Majorca: [a Letter to FranÇois Rollinat]

Edward Fitzgerald Manages to Write a Let- Ter with Two Ideas in It: [a Letter to Frederic Tennyson]

Heinrich Heine Writes the Obituary of The Romanticism of His Age: [a Letter to K. A. Varnhagen Von Ense]

Charlotte BrontË, in a Spirit of Resignation, Tells of the Death of Her Sister Emily: [a Letter to Ellen Nussey]

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Contemptuous of His Countrymen, Yet Writes Hopefully Of Italian Liberation to His Heroic Wife

Jenny Lind Meets with an Astonishing Re- Ception in New York: [a Letter to Her Parents]

Herman Melville, at Work on Moby Dick, Spills Out His Artist's Soul to His Neighbor and Friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harriet Beecher Stowe Tells the Story Of Her Life: [a Letter to Mrs. Follen]

Florence Nightingale, Amid the Horrors Of the Crimean War, Jolts England With the Facts: [a Letter to Sir William Bowman]

Charles Baudelaire Agonizes Over His Wretched Way of Life and Thwarted Ambitions: [a Letter to His Mother]

Louisa May Alcott Concocts a New Spring Bonnet: [a Letter to Her Sister Anna]

Pages from The War Between the States, Drawn From The Correspondence Of General Mcclellan, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, General Sherman, John Wilkes Booth, And Robert E. Lee: [a Series]

Walt Whitman Finds in the Hospitals Of Washington a Drama Surpassing Any- Thing in Literature: [a Letter to Nat and Fred Gray]

William Tecumseh Sherman Predicts Victory for the North: [a Letter to His Brother John]

John Wilkes Booth States His Case for The South

General Robert E. Lee Bids a Last Farewell To His Army

Bismarck Exults in the German Triumph At Sedan: [a Letter to His Wife]

Henrik Ibsen Discards Outworn Concep Tions of Liberty and Foresees Mighty Revolutions: [a Letter to Georg Brandes]

Gerard Manley Hopkins Muses on the Pains And Pleasures of Vaccination: [a Letter to His Sister Kate]

George Sand Denounces Gustave Flaubert For His Excess of Intellectual Pride And Artist's Snobbery

Thomas Henry Huxley Wishes George Eliot Buried with Peace and Honor, but Not In Westminster Abbey: [a Letter to Herbert Spencer]

Louis Pasteur Announces a "Stunning Success" in His Anthrax Experiments: [a Letter to His Children]

Robert Louis Stevenson, in Rollicking Vein, Tells a Friend That Writing Treasure Island is "Awful Fun": [a Letter to William Ernest Henley]

Julia Ward Howe Insists on Her Christian Duty to Entertain Oscar Wilde: [an Open Letter to the Boston Transcript]

Ivan Turgenev, from His Deathbed, En- Treats Leo Tolstoi to Return to His Literary Work

Anton Chekhov Reproves His Brother Nikolai for His Complete Lack Of Culture

Part Three Letters of Yesterday and Today: [from 1892 to 1941]

John Jay Chapman Writes His Wife a Love Letter

Sir William Osler, in the Guise of His Dead Son, Sends a Report of Life in Heaven

Lafcadio Hearn Contrasts Eastern And Western Concepts of Love: [a Letter to Basil Hall Chamberlain]

Rudyard Kipling Tells William James What Is Wrong with American Civilization

William James Asserts That His Faith is As Robust as Anyone Else's: [a Letter to John Jay Chapman]

Henry Adams, Seven Hundred Years Old, Views the Dawn of the Twentieth Century with a Monkish Eye: [a Letter to John Hay]

Henry James, Most of His Life Gone, Wants To Go on Living and Writing: [a Letter to Henry Adams]

Katherine Mansfield Senses Life: Two Letters

Katherine Mansfield, on an Evening in May, Feels a Little Bit Drunk with Living: [a Letter to S. S. Koteliansky]

Katherine Mansfield, on Another Evening In May, Finds Nothing but Corruption And Loneliness: [a Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell]

Theodore Roosevelt Prescribes a Spartan Regimen for the United States: [a Letter to Mrs. William Brown Meloney]

Rabindranath Tagore, Reaffirming His Faith in the Moral Greatness of Man, Pays Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi: [a Letter to C. F. Andrews]

T. E. Lawrence Lashes Out Savagely Against The Spiritual Failure of Mankind: [a Letter to Lionel Curtis]

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock Discuss Life, Let- Ters, and God: [an Exchange of Letters]

D. H. Lawrence Foresees Germany Retreat- Ing to the Middle Ages: [a Letter to a Friend]

Virginia Woolf Finds She Cannot Go on Any Longer: [a Letter to Her Husband, Leonard Woolf]

An A.R.P. Warden Describes the Hell And Fury of the Bombing of London: [a Letter from Stanley Lupino to His Wife]

Acknowledgments

Index
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English Diaries: A Review of English Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century with an Introduction on Diary Writing (1923)
by Arthur Ponsonby. 450 pgs.

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Introduction On Diary Writing

List of Diaries: Arranged in Chronological Order

Sixteenth Century

Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth Century: Minor Diaries

Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth Century: Minor Diaries

Nineteenth Century

Nineteenth Century: Minor Diaries

Twentieth Century

Index: Of All Diaries and Chronicles Mentioned in the Volume
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More English Diaries: Further Reviews of Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century with an Introduction on Diary Reading (1927)
by Arthur Ponsonby. 254 pgs.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ON DIARY READING WITH NOTES ON MINOR ENGLISH DIARIES

LIST OF DIARIES ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

Philip Wyot

Adam Winthrop

Margaret Lady Hoby

Lady Anne Clifford

Walter Powell

The Ishams: SIR JOHN, SIR THOMAS, AND SIR JUSTINIAN

Sir John Reresby

Anthony Ashley Cooper (first Earl of Shaftesbury)

Viscountess Mordaunt

Anthony Wood

Sir Richard Newdigate

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

James Clegg

James Woodforde

Thomas Hollis

Nicholas Cresswell

Joseph Mydelton

William Jones

Henry White

Samuel Teedon

John Marsden

NINETEENTH CENTURY

Dorothy Wordsworth

Thomas Asline Ward

Colonel Peter Hawker

Thomas Rumney

Katherine Bisshopp (lady Pechell)

J. Vine Hall

William Kershaw

Henry Edward Fox (fourth Lord Holland)

Antony Ashley Cooper (seventh Earl of Shaftesbury)

Emily Shore

William Charles Macready

Miss J.

Ford Madox Brown

Charles Russell

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

INDEX OF DIARIES AND CHRONICLES NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME
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The Heart of Emerson's Journals (1926)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry. 362 pgs.

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1820-24

1825-28

1829-1832

1833-1835

1836-1838

1839-1841

1842-1844

1845-1848

1849-1855

1856-1863

1864-1875

Index
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Livingstone's African Journal 1853-1856
by I. Schapera. 238 pgs.

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Abbreviations Etc. Used In Footnotes

Introduction

Author's Note This Journal

I: Departure from Linyanti

II: Ascent of the Leeambye

III: Ascent of the Leeba

IV: At Shinte's Town

V: From Shinte's to Lake Dilolo

VI: Among the Bachokwe

VII: In Portuguese Territory

Viii The City and District Of Loanda

Appendix I: Censuses

Appendix II: Distances

IX: At Golungo Alto And Pungo Andongo

X: Cassange and the Quango
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Chopin's Letters (1931)
by Frederic Chopin, Henryk Saville Opienski, E. L. Voynich. 420 pgs.

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