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general

the language of seventeenth and eighteenth-century authors

 

the sixteenth century

The Clifford Family

Dickens, A.G. (ed.). 1962. Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century. Surtees Society, Vol. 172.

 

the seventeenth century

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Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Graham, Walter (ed.). 1941. The Letters of Joseph Addison. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • poet, dramatist and essayist
  • “all that can now be found of the letters written by Addison” (1941:v)
  • 428 letters in full, 274 abstracts, “written or dictated by him in the routine of secretarial employments”
  • Addison ´a representative of the rising middle class of the time”. Through the letters: a more human figure.
  • appendix: some letters addressed to him, 36 from individuals, those in English only. One letter by a woman: Gracia Bartlett, an illiterate speller.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Hodges, John C. 1964. William Congreve: Letters and Documents. London: Macmillan.

Daniel Defoe (1659/61-1731)

Healey, George Harris (ed.). 1955. The Letters of Daniel Defoe. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Defoe's letters give “authentic information about a fascinating and complicated personality” (1955:v).
  • 235 out-letters, 16 in-letters.
  • Many letters must have got lost. Harley, who was a collector, saved most of his letters. “There survive a score of other letters to persons of high status, most of them statesmen, who, like Harley, had facilities for preserving their correspondence and reasons for doing so” (1955:vi)

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Ward, Charles E. (ed.). 1942. The Letters of John Dryden, with Letters Addressed to him. Durham: Duke University Press.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Burgess, C.F. (ed.). 1966. The Letters of John Gay. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • only out-letters.  

George Hickes (1642-1715)

Harris, Richard L. (ed.). 1992. A Chorus of Grammars: The Correspondence of George Hickes and his Collaborators on the Thesaurus Linguarum Septentionalium. Toronto: Pontificial Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Beer, E.S. de (ed.). 1976-1989. The Correspondence of John Locke. 8 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  •  all extant in-and out-letters
  • some changes in pronunciation
  • original spelling retained
  • abbreviations expanded  

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Halsband, Robert (ed.). 1965-1967. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1708-1720
  • Vol. 2. 1721-1751
  • Vol. 3. 1752-1762

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Turnbull, H.W., A. Rupert Hall, Laura Tilling and J.F. Scott (eds.). 1959-1977. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. 7 Vols. Cambridge: University Press.

Comments:

  • as far as possible, original spelling and punctuation retained  
  • abbreviations, u/v, i/j, long <s> modernized
  • capitalization retained
  • Vol. 1. 1661-1775
  • Vol. 2. 1676-1687
  •  Vol. 3. 1688-1694
  • Vol. 4. 1694-1709
  • Vol. 5. 1709-1713
  • Vol. 6. 1713-1718
  • Vol. 7. 1718-1727

Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695)

Moore Smith, G.C. (ed.). 1959 [1928]. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 

Parker, Kenneth (ed.). 1987. Dorothy Osborne, Letters to William Temple. London: Penguin.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Sherburn, George (ed.). 1956. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope. 5 Vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1704-1718
  • Vol. 2. 1719-1728
  • Vol. 3. 1729-1735
  • Vol. 4. 1736-1744
  • Vol. 5. Index

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

The Matthew Prior Project, a calendar of Prior's complete correspondence.

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Mullett, Charles F. (ed.). 1943.  The Letters of George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1733-1743). Columbia, Miss.: University of Missouri.

Carroll, John (ed.). 1964. Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Slattery, William C. (ed.). 1969. The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence, and Stinstra's “Prefaces” to Clarissa. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Blanchard, Rae (ed.). 1941. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. London: Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Williams, Harold (ed.). 1963-1965. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. 5 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1690-1713
  • Vol. 2. 1714-1723
  • Vol. 3. 1724-1731
  •  Vol. 4. 1732-1736
  •  Vol. 5. 1737-1745  

Woolley, David (ed.). 1999-. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Lang.

Comments:

  •  Vol. 1. 1690-1714
  •   Vol. 2. 1714-1726  

William Wake (1657-1737)

Adams, Leonard (ed.). 1988-. William Wake’s Gallican Correspondence and Related Documents. 1716-1732. 2 Vols. New York etc.: Peter Lang.

Comments:

  • Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Business letters
  • Text not standardized
  • Numerous changes, erasures, interpolations and repetitions in the manuscripts
  • Capitalization occasionally normalized
  • Vol. 1. 24 January 1716-1 November 1719
  • Vol. 2. 8 November 1719-4 February 1721
  • Vol. 3. 5 February 1721-12 December 1721
  • Vol. 4. 18 December 1721-17 April 1724

William Warburton (1698-1779)

Nichol, Donald W. (ed.). 1992. Pope's Literary Legacy. The Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton with other Letters and Documents 1744-1780. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Pettit, Henry (ed.). 1971. The Correspondence. London.

 

the eighteenth century

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A corpus of Late Modern English Prose

  • The English language of the north-west in the late Modern English period: Access to the corpus is obtained by completing the Access Request form.

Adams Family (John Adams 1735-1826, Abigail Adams 1744-1818)

Butterfield, L.H., Wendell D. Garrett, Marjorie E. Sprague and Richard Alan Ryerson (eds.). 1963-1993. The Adams Family Correspondence. 6 Vols. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press (Harvard University Press).

Comments:

  • John Adams: 2nd president of the US; Abigail Adams: his wife
  • Selections from a much larger body of text
  • Exchanges between parents and children, children
  • No corrections made to the language
 

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Le Faye, Deirdre (ed.). 1995. Jane Austen’s Letters. [3rd ed.]. Oxford/New York : Oxford University Press. Previously published as R.W. Chapman (ed.). 1952. Jane Austen’s Letters to her Sister Cassandra and Others [2rd ed.]. London.

Comments:

  • novelist
  • the letters are occasional, unstudied, inconsequent
  • original spelling, capitalization and punctuation
  • page breaks noted
  • only out-letters, from 9/10 Jan. 1796 to 29 July 1817

Modert, Jo (ed.). 1990. Jane Austen’s Manuscript Letters in Facsimile. Reproductions of every known extant letter; fragment and autograph copy, with an annotated list of all known letters. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.

Comments:

  • first letter dated (?) 23 August 1796.

Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

Chambers, Neil (ed.). 2000. The Letters of Joseph Banks. London: Imperial College Press.

Comments:

  • the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, including his correspondence, have been made available online by the State Library of New South Wales.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Sprigge, Timothy L.S., Stephen Conway, Catherine Fuller et al. (eds.). 1968-2000. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. 11 Vols. London: The Athlone Press/ Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • philosopher; leader of the Utilitarian Reformers, major figure in the history of ideas, law social policy of the nineteenth century  
  • huge mass of manuscript material left at his death  
  • in and out-letters
  • down to 1780 vast majority are family letters
  • original spelling and punctuation retained, occasional errors corrected
  • idiosyncratic spelling
  • many letters in French
  • often wrote alternative words in between the lines   

William Blake (1757-1827)

Keynes, Geoffrey (ed.) 1956. The Letters of William Blake. Rupert-Hart Davis.

Francis Blomefield (1705-1751/52)

Stoker, David A. (ed.). 1992. The Correspondence of the Reverend Francis Blomefield (1705-52). Norwich: Norfolk Record Society.

Comments:

  •  rector of Fersfield, Norfolk, historian and private printer
  • 294 letters, in letters and out- letters
  • 58 letters from originals, rest: drafts or copies of letters received
  • 100 correspondents, including members of the book trade   
  • erratic punctuation and capitalization selectively modernized  
  • abbreviations expanded
  • obvious spelling mistakes normalised

James Boswell (1740-1795)

Pottle, Frederick A. (ed.). 1952. Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide). London: Heinemann.

Hilles, Frederick W. (gen. eds.) 1966- . The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, London Heinemann.

Walker, Ralph S. (ed.). 1966. The Correspondence of Boswell and John Johnston of Grange. Vol. 1. London: Heinemann.

Waingrow, Marshall (ed.). 1969. The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell relating to the Making of the “Life of Johnson”. Vol. 2. London: Heinemann.

Fifer, Charles N. (ed.). 1976. The Correspondence of James Boswell with Certain Members of The Club, including Oliver Goldsmith, Bishops Percy and Barnard, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Topham Beauclerk, and Bennet Langton. Vol. 3. London: Heinemann.

Kahrl. George M., Rachel McClellan, Thomas W. Copeland, Peter S. Baker and James M. Osborn (eds.). 1986. The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone. Vol. 4. London: Heinemann.

Cole, Richard S., with Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan and James J. Caudle (eds.). 1993-1997. The general correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769. Vols. 5 and 7. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/ New Haven etc.: Yale University Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1 1766-1767, Vol. 2 1768-1769  

Crawford, Thomas (ed.). 1997-. The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795. Vol. 6. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/ New Haven etc.: Yale University Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1 1766-1777

Pottle Hankins, Nellie, and John Strawhorn (eds). 1998. Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, overseers of the Auchinleck Estate. Vol. 8. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/ New Haven etc.: Yale University Press. 

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Copeland, Thomas W. , Lucy S. Sutherland, George H. Guttridge, John A. Woods, Holden Furber, P.J. Marshall, Alfred Cobban, Robert A. Smith, R.B. McDowell and Barbara Lowe (eds.). 1958-1978. The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. 10 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Charles Burney (1726-1814)

Ribeiro, Alvara, S.J. (ed.) 1991-. The Letters of Dr Charles Burney. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Fanny Burney (1752-1840)

Troide, Lars E. et al. (eds.). 1988- . The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1768-1773
  • Vol. 2. 1774-1777
  • Vol. 3. 1778-1779

Hemlow, Joyce, Althea Douglas et al. (eds.) 1972-1984. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). 12 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1791-1792
  • Vol. 2. Courtship and marriage 1793
  • Vol. 3. 1793-1797
  • Vol. 4. 1797-1801
  • Vol. 5. 1801-1803
  • Vol. 6. 1803-1812
  • Vol. 7.
  • Vol. 8. 1815
  • Vol. 9
  • Vol. 10
  • Vol. 11. 1818-1824
  • Vol. 12. 1825-1840

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Mackay, James A. (ed.). 1987. The Complete Letters of Robert Burns. Ayr: Alloway.

De Lancey Ferguson (ed.), J. (ed). 1985. The Letters of Robert Burns. [2nd ed.; 1st ed. 1931, by G. Ross Roy]. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1780-1784
  • Vol. 2. 1790-1796

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)

Taylor, Donald S. and Benjamin B. Hoover (eds.). 1971. The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

The Earl of Chesterfield, P.D. Stanhope (1694-1773)

Roberts, D. (ed.). 1992. Lord Chesterfield: Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Clift family

The Clift Family Correspondence, 1792-1846, ed. by Frances Austin. 1991. Sheffield: CECTAL.

William Cobbett (1762-1835)

Cole, G.D.H. (ed.) 1937. Letters from William Cobbett to Edward Thornton, Written in the Years 1797 to 1800. London: Oxford University Press.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Griggs, E.L. (ed.). 1956-1971. Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 6 Volumes.

Jackson, H.J. (ed.). 1987. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Selected Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • only one-tenth of the correspondence
  • spelling not modernized
  • “his earliest letters reveal an awareness … of traditional guidelines for letter-writing. As his experience as a correspondent increased, so did his command of the medium”  
  • to Mrs Evans: “My pen writes to others, but it talks to you” (5 Feb. 1793)

Engell, James (ed.). 1994. Coleridge, The Early Family Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

John Constable (1776-1832)

Beckett, R.B. (ed.). 1962-1975. John Constable’s Correspondence. 8 Vols. London: H.M.S.O./ Suffolk Record Society.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. The family at East Bergholt 1807-1837
  • Vol. 2. Early friends and Maria Bicknell (Mrs. Constable)
  • Vol. 3. The correspondence with C.R. Leslie
  • Vol. 4. Patrons, dealers and fellow artists
  • Vol. 5. Various friends, with Charles Boner and the artist’s children
  • Vol. 8. John Constable: further documents and correspondence (eds. Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams; London: Tate Gallery/ Suffolk Record Society)  

William Cowper (1731-1800)

King, James, and Charles Ryskamp (eds.) 1979-1986. The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. 5 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • 1300 letters, all that have survived
  • Only out-letters, to a variety of people, 6 women, 10 men.
  • Vol. 1. “Adelphi” and Letters 1750-1781
  • Vol. 2. Letters 1782-1786
  • Vol. 3. Letters 1787-1791
  • Vol. 4. Letters 1792-1799
  • Vol. 5. Prose 1756-c. 1799 and cumulative index

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

Faulkner, Thomas C., and Rhonda L. Blair (eds.). 1985. Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

King-Hele, Desmond (ed.). 1981. The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Daniel Defoe (1659/61-1731)

Healey, George Harris (ed.). 1955. The Letters of Daniel Defoe. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Defoe's letters give “authentic information about a fascinating and complicated personality” (1955:v).
  • 235 out-letters, 16 in-letters.
  • Many letters must have got lost. Harley, who was a collector, saved most of his letters. “There survive a score of other letters to persons of high status, most of them statesmen, who, like Harley, had facilities for preserving their correspondence and reasons for doing so” (1955:vi)

Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)

Tierney, James E. (ed.) 1988. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733-1764. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Comments:

  • in-letters as well as out-letters
  • original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, superscript, abbreviations retained

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

Colvin, C. (ed.). 1971. Maria Edgeworth: Letters from England (1813-1844). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Hare, A.J.C. (ed.). 1894. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth. Freeport, NJ: Books for Libraries Press. Reprinted 1971.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn (eds.). 1993. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)

Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn (eds.). 1993. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

Woodall, Mary (ed.). 1963. The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough.The Cupid Press.

David Garrick (1717-1779)

Little, David M., George M. Kahrl, and Phoebe de K. Wilson  (eds.). 1963. The Letters of David Garrick. 3 Vols. Cambridge. Mass.: The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Burgess, C.F. (ed.). 1966. The Letters of John Gay. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • only out-letters.  

George III (1738-1820)

Aspinal, A. (ed.). 1962-1970. The Later Correspondence of George III. 5 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Comments:

  • original spelling retained
  • formal beginnings and endings omitted except when they throw light on a relationship, or a change in one  

George IV (1762-1830)

Aspinal, A. (ed.) 1963-1971. The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812. 8 Vols. London: Cassell.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1770-1789
  • Vol. 2. 1789-1794
  • Vol. 3. 1795-1798
  • Vol. 4. 1799-1804
  • Vol. 5. 1804-1806
  • Vol. 6. 1806-1809
  • Vol. 7. 1810-1811
  • Vol. 8. 1811-1812

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Norton, J.E. (ed.). 1956. The Letters of Edward Gibbon. 3 Vols. London: [no publisher].

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1750-1773
  • Vol. 2. 1774-1784
  • Vol. 3. 1784-1794

Oliver Goldsmith (1728? -1774)

Balderston, Katherine C. (ed.). 1928. The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith. Cambridge: University Press.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, with corrections by H.W. Starr (eds.). 1935. Correspondence of Thomas Gray. 3 Vols. [repr. 1971] Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1734-1755
  • Vol. 2. 1756-1765
  • Vol. 3. 1766-1771

David Hume (1711-1776)

Klibansky, Raymond and Ernest C. Mossner (eds.).  1954. New Letters of David Hume. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Greig, J.Y.T. (ed.). 1932. The Letters of David Hume. 2 Vols. [repr. 1969] Oxford: Clarendon Press. [1932 ed.]

Sara Hutchinson (1775-1835)

Coburn, K. (ed.). 1954. The Letters of Sara Hutchinson from 1800 to 1835. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Cappon, Lester J. (ed.). 1959. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 2 Vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1 1777-1804, Vol. 2 1812-1826
  • 380 letters
  • original capitalization and punctuation

Morton Smith, James (ed.). 1995. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826.  New York: Norton.

  • Vol. 1: 1776-1790. Vol. 2: 1790-1804. Vol. 3: 1804-1826.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Chapman, R.W. (ed.). 1952. The Letters of Samuel Johnson, with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Redford, Bruce (ed.). 1992-1994. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. 5 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • 52 letters or parts of letters came to light since Chapman’s edition (1992-4:x).
  • Johnson's letters “are never less than precious biographical documents”. He was “incapable of putting ‘little’ - of himself or any other topic - into his letters” (1992-4:xiii). In the late 1760s Johnson had an epistolary vocation, set off by Hester Thrale (ix-x).
  • The recovered letters reflect the number of letters he actually wrote (ix): representative.
  • In-letters by Hester Thrale, John Taylor (1), Lucy Porter (1), Hill Boothby (1?), Burney.
  • Vol. 1. 1731-1772
  • Vol. 2. 1773-1776
  • Vol. 3. 1777-1781
  • Vol. 4. 1782-1784
  • Vol. 5. Appendices and comprehensive index  

John Keats (1795-1821)

Gittings, R. (ed.). 1970. Letters of John Keats. A New Selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted with Corrections, 1975.

Rollins, H.E. (ed.). 1958. The Letters of John Keats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Lucas, E.V. (ed.). 1935. The Letters of Charles Lamb, to Which Are Added those of his Sister. 3 Vols. London.

Marrs, Edwin W. (ed.). 1975-1978. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)

Lucas, E.V. (ed.). 1935. The Letters of Charles Lamb, to Which Are Added those of his Sister. 3 Vols. London.

Marrs, Edwin W. (ed.). 1975-1978. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Charles and Mary Anne Lamb

Marrs, Jr. Edwin W. (ed.). 1975-. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Vol. 1:  1796-1801, Vol. 2: 1801-1809, Vol. 3: 1809-1817. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press.

Charles Lennox (1735-1806)

Olson, Alison Gilbert (ed.). 1961. The Radical Duke. Career and Correspondence of Charles Lennox, Third Duke of Richmond. London etc.: Oxford University Press.

Comments:

  • Over 1000 of Richmond’s letters survive
  • Only his out-letters included; “he threw most of his personal papers away” (p. 110)
  • An index of his political friendships
  • His own spelling and punctuation, occasional corrections for clarity
  • Family notes excluded  

Emily Lennox (1731-1814)

Fitzgerald, Brian (ed.). 1949-1957. The Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster, 1731-1814. 3 Vols. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Lord Fitzwilliam of Milton

Hainsworth, D.R., and Cherry Walker (eds.). 1990. The Correspondence of Lord Fitzwilliam of Milton and Francis Guybon, his Steward. 1697-1709. Northampton: Northampton Record Society.

Comments:

  • a “magnificent” letter writer, spontaneous, down-to-earth   
  • occasional errors of sentence structure, syntax and grammar, but a “natural mastery of the English language”
  •  in and out-letters
  • original spelling
  • contractions expanded
  • intrusive (?) capitals reduced  

William Nelson (1711-1772)

Van Horne, John C. (ed.). 1975. The Correspondence of William Nelson as Acting Governor of Virginia. 1770-1771. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia.

Comments:

  • president of the Council of Virginia, corresponds with the secretary of state for the colonies etc.
  • business letters
  • in-letters believed to be lost
  • original spelling and punctuation retained
  • contractions expanded  

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Turnbull, H.W., A. Rupert Hall, Laura Tilling and J.F. Scott (eds.). 1959-1977. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. 7 Vols. Cambridge: University Press.

Comments:

  • as far as possible, original spelling and punctuation retained  
  • abbreviations, u/v, i/j, long <s> modernized
  • capitalization retained
  • Vol. 1. 1661-1775
  • Vol. 2. 1676-1687
  •  Vol. 3. 1688-1694
  • Vol. 4. 1694-1709
  • Vol. 5. 1709-1713
  • Vol. 6. 1713-1718
  • Vol. 7. 1718-1727

Richard Orford

  • A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose: letters addressed to Richard Orford, steward at Lyme Hall, Cheshire, edited by David Denison. Access to the corpus is obtained by completing the Access Request form. Website.

Thomas Percy (1729-1811)

Smith, David Nichol and Cleanth Brooks (gen. eds.). 1944- . The Percy letters. (Vol. 8: 1985). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press/New Haven etc.: Yale University Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone / ed. by Arthur Tillotson. 1944
  • Vol. 2. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Richard Farmer / ed. by Cleanth Brooks. 1946
  • Vol. 3. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Thomas Warton / ed. by M.G. Robinson & Leah Dennis. 1951
  • Vol. 4. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes / ed. by A.F. Falconer. 1954
  • Vol. 5. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Evan Evans / ed. by Aneirin Lewis. 1957
  • Vol. 6. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & George Paton / ed. by A.F. Falconer. 1961
  • Vol. 7. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & William Shenstone / ed. by Cleanth Brooks. 1977
  • Vol. 8. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & John Pinkerton / ed. by Harriet Harvey Wood. 1985
  • Vol. 9. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Robert Anderson / ed. by W.E.K. Anderson. 1988
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Piozzi: see Mrs Thrale

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Sherburn, George (ed.). 1956. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope. 5 Vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1704-1718
  • Vol. 2. 1719-1728
  • Vol. 3. 1729-1735
  • Vol. 4. 1736-1744
  • Vol. 5. Index

Richard Price (1723-1791)

Thomas, D.O., and W. Bernard Peach (eds.). 1983-1994. The Correspondence of Richard Price. 3 Vols. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press/ Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Comments:

  • A dissenting minister
  • In and out-letters
  • Some transcriptions of shorthand drafts
  • Lightly edited: original spelling and capitalization kept, some punctuation supplied
  • Profuse capitalization of nouns
  • Vol. 1. July 1748-March 1778
  • Vol. 2. March 1778-February 1786
  • Vol. 3. February 1786-February 1791  

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

The Matthew Prior Project, a calendar of Prior's complete correspondence.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Knight, Perla (ed.). 1974. Letters to William Frend from the Reynolds family of Little Paxton and John Hammond of Fenstanton 1793-1814. Cambridge : Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society.

Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe (eds.). 2000. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. New Haven etc.: Yale University Press. 

Comments:

  • Reynolds was a reluctant letter writer. In a letter to Boswell he wrote: "... if I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a Painter as I am a correspondent" (ed. 2000:112)

  • out-letters only

  • 230 dated letters, 24 undated letters

  • 35 letters concerning payments and receipts

  • abbreviations, repetitions and misspellings preserved (Reynolds consistently wrote 'immediatly' and 'tast'", ed. 2000:xviii)  

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Mullett, Charles F. (ed.). 1943.  The Letters of George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1733-1743). Columbia, Miss.: University of Missouri.

Carroll, John (ed.). 1964. Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Slattery, William C. (ed.). 1969. The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence, and Stinstra's “Prefaces” to Clarissa. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)

Butterfield, L.H. (ed.). 1951. Letters of Benjamin Rush. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

  • Part I 1761-1792

  • Part II 1973-1813.

The Love Letters of Dr. Benjamin Rush to Julia Stockton. 1979. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publ.

 John Ruskin (1819-1900), John James Ruskin (1785-1864) and Margaret Ruskin (1781-1871)

Bradley, J.L. (ed.). 1955. Ruskin's Letters from Venice, 1851-1852. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Shapiro, H.I. (ed.). 1972. Ruskin in Italy. Letters to his Parents, 1845. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Van Akin Bird, J. (ed.). 1973. The Ruskin Family Letters. The Correspondence of John James Ruskin, his Wife and their Son. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

David Scott (1746-1805)

Philips, C.H. (ed.). 1951. The Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, relating to Indian Affairs. 1787-1805. 2 Vols. London: The Royal Historical Society.

Comments:

  • some letters are marked “private”
  • in and out-letters
  • final greetings are omitted
  • Scott used many amanuenses, so the spelling and capitalization have been normalized

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Grierson, H.J.C. (ed.). 1932. The Letters of Sir Walter Scott. London: Constable & Co. Centenary Edition, 12 Volumes.

William Shenstone (1714-1763)

Williams, Marjorie (ed.). 1939. The Letters of William Shenstone. Oxford: Blackwells.

Brooks, Cleanth (ed.). 1977. The correspondence of Thomas Percy & William Shenstone. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.

Betsy Sheridan (1758-1837)

Lefanu, William (ed.). 1960. Betsy Sheridan’s Journal. Letters from Sheridan’s Sister,  [repr. 1986]. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Price, Cecil (ed.). 1966. The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  •  many spellings normalized
  • letters as much as possible reproduced from holographs

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

1976-. The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press/ New York: Oxford University Press.

Mossner, Ernest Campbell and Ian Simpson Ross (eds.). 1977. The Correspondence of Adam Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)

Knapp, Lewis M. (ed.). 1970. The Letters of Tobias Smollett. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Curry, K. (ed.). 1965. New Letters of Robert Southey. New York: Columbia University Press. I: 1792-1810; II: 1811-1838.

Philip Stannard (1703-1777)  

Priestley, Ursula (ed.). 1994. The Letters of Philip Stannard, Norwich Textile Manufacturer (1751-1763.[Norwich]: Norfolk Record Society. 

Comments:       

  • 162 numbered letters, largely business letters
  • in-letters only
  •  some letters show signs of being hastily copied, by clerks
  •  punctuation, spelling, capitalization normalized
  • contractions expanded
  • added paragraphing    

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Blanchard, Rae (ed.). 1941. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. London: Oxford University Press.

Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)

Curtis, Lewis Perry (ed.). 1935. The Letters of Lawrence Sterne [repr. 1965]. Oxford: [no publ.].

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Williams, Harold (ed.). 1963-1965. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. 5 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 1. 1690-1713
  • Vol. 2. 1714-1723
  • Vol. 3. 1724-1731
  •  Vol. 4. 1732-1736
  •  Vol. 5. 1737-1745  

Woolley, David (ed.). 1999-. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Lang.

Comments:

  •  Vol. 1. 1690-1714
  •   Vol. 2. 1714-1726  

Hester Lynch Thrale, later Mrs Piozzi (1741-1821)

Bloom, Edward A., and Lillian D. Bloom (eds.). 1989-2002. The Piozzi Letters. Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale. 6 Volumes. Newark: University of Delaware Press/ London and Toronto: Associated University Press.

Comments:

  •  ’d normalized (but only in autograph letters)
  • Vol. 1. 1784-1791
  • Vol. 2: 1792-1798
  • Vol. 3: 1799-1804
  • Vol. 4: 1805-1810
  • Vol. 5: 1811-1816
  • Vol. 6: 1817-1821

Thomas Twining (1735-1804)

Ralph S. Walker (ed.). 1991. A Selection of Thomas Twining’s Letters, 1734-1804. Lewiston etc.: Mellon.

Comments :

  • Twining was one of Charles Burney’s Correspondents  

William Wake (1657-1737)

Adams, Leonard (ed.). 1988-. William Wake’s Gallican Correspondence and Related Documents. 1716-1732. 2 Vols. New York etc.: Peter Lang.

Comments:

  • Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Business letters
  • Text not standardized
  • Numerous changes, erasures, interpolations and repetitions in the manuscripts
  • Capitalization occasionally normalized
  • Vol. 1. 24 January 1716-1 November 1719
  • Vol. 2. 8 November 1719-4 February 1721
  • Vol. 3. 5 February 1721-12 December 1721
  • Vol. 4. 18 December 1721-17 April 1724

Sir Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

Lewis, W.S. et al. (eds.). 1937-1983. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. 48 Vols. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Comments:

  • Vols 1-2. Horace Walpole's correspondence with the rev. William Cole / ed. by W.S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace
  • Vol. 3.  Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart Vol. 3.  Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart: I 1766-1767 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  • Vol. 4, Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand Vol. 4, Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand: II 1768-1770 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  • Vol. 5. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Mademoiselle Sanadon Vol. 5. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Mademoiselle Sanadon: III 1771-1773 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  • Vol. 6. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart Vol. 6. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart: IV 1774-1777 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  • Vol. 7.  Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart Vol. 7.  Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart: V 1778-1780 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  • Vol. 8. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand Vol. 8. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand: VI appendices / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Warren Hunting Smith
  •  Vols. 9–10. Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Montagu / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, Jr.
  •  Vol. 11. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Mary and Agnes Berry and Barbara Cecilia Seton  Vol. 11. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Mary and Agnes Berry and Barbara Cecilia Seton: I 1788-1791 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace; with the assistance of Charles H. Bennett and Edwine M. Martz
  • Vol. 12. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Mary and Agnes Berry: II 1793-1796 / ed. by W.S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace ; with the assistance of Charles H. Bennett and Edwine M. Martz
  • Vols. 13–14. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton / ed. by W.S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett
  • Vol. 15. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir David Dalrymple Vol. 15. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir David Dalrymple: Conyers Middleton, Daniel Lysons, William Robertson, William Roscoe, William Beloe, The Earl of Buchan, Samuel Lysons, Robert Henry, James Edwards, Robert Nares / ed. by W.S. Lewis, Charles H. Bennett and Andrew G. Hoover
  • Vol. 16. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Chatterton, Michael Lort, John Pinkerton, John Fenn and Mrs. Fenn, William Bewley, Nathaniel Hillier / ed. by W.S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace. Henry Zouch
  • Vols. 17–24. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir Horace Mann / ed. by W.S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith and George L. Lam
  • Vols. 25–27. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir Horace Mann and Sir Horace Mann the Younger / ed. by W.S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith and George L. Lam ; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz
  •  Vols. 28–29. Horace Walpole's correspondence with William Mason / ed. by W.S. Lewis, Grover Cronin Jr. and Charles H. Bennett
  • Vol. 30. Horace Walpole's correspondence with George Selwyn, Lord Lincoln, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Henry Fox, Richard Edgcumbe / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Robert A. Smith
  • Vol. 31. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Hannah More: Lady Browne, Lady Mary Coke, Lady Hervey, Mary Hamilton (Mrs. John Dickenson), Lady George Lennox, Anne Pitt, Lady Suffolk / ed. by W.S. Lewis, Robert A. Smith and Charles H. Bennett
  • Vols. 32–34. Horace Walpole's correspondence with the Countess of Upper Ossory / ed. by W.S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace ; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz
  •  Vol. 35. Horace Walpole's correspondence with John Chute, Richard Bentley, the Earl of Strafford, Sir William Hamilton, the Earl and Countess Harcourt [and] George Hardinge / ed. by W.S. Lewis, A. Dayle Wallace and Robert A. Smith ; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz
  • Vol. 36. Horace Walpole's correspondence with the Walpole family / ed. by W.S. Lewis and Joseph W. Reed, Jr. ; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz
  • Vol. 37. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Mrs. Harris / ed. by W.S. Lewis ... [et al.]
  •  Vol. 38. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp, Henrietta Seymour Conway / ed. by W.S. Lewis ... [et al.]
  • Vol. 39. Horace Walpole's correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp, Henrietta Seymour Conway, Lord Henry and Lord Hugh Deymour / ed. by W.S. Lewis ... [et al.]
  • Vols. 40–42. Horace Walpole's miscellaneous correspondence / edited by W.S. Lewis and John Riely; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz and Ruth K. McClure
  • Vol. 43. Horace Walpole's correspondence Vol. 43. Horace Walpole's correspondence: additions and corrections, subject index to illustrations, index of Horace Walpole's correspondents, chronological list of letters / comp. by Edwine M. Martz; with the assistance of Ruth K. McClure and William T. La Moy
  • Vols. 44–48. Horace Walpole's correspondence: complete index / comp. by Warren Hunting Smith Vols. 44–48. Horace Walpole's correspondence: complete index / comp. by Warren Hunting Smith; with the assistance of Edwine M. Martz, Ruth K. McClure and William T. La Moy  

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 by Horace Walpole — Project Gutenberg.

William Warburton (1698-1779)

Nichol, Donald W. (ed.). 1992. Pope's Literary Legacy. The Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton with other Letters and Documents 1744-1780. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society.

Thomas Warton (1728-1790)

Fairer, David (ed.). 1995. The Correspondence of Thomas Warton. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.

Comments:

  •  Poet, literary historian, classical scholar, Gothic enthusiast, humorist, biographer, editor (p. xvii)
  • All in and out letters, 609, of which 288 out-letters, 321 in-letters
  • 109 correspondents
  • 455 letters based on original correspondents
  • capitalization and spelling retained (obvious errors corrected)
  •  he has a tendency to use double consonants 

Noah Webster (1758-1843)

Warfel, Harry A. (ed.). 1953. Letters of Noah Webster. New York: Library Publ.

John Wesley (1703-1791)

Baker, Frank (ed.). 1980-1982. The Works of John Wesley. Vol. 25-26. Letters I-II. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Comments:

  • Vol. 25. 1721-1739

  • Vol. 26. 1740-1755

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

Comments:

Ralph M. Wardle (ed.). 1979. Collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

  • Still writes long <s> before her death
  • Letters copied as they stand, periods and commas often indistinguishable, as well as capitals and lower-case letters 

Mary Wordsworth (1770-1859)

Burton, M.A. (ed.). 1958. The Letters of Mary Wordsworth, 1800-1855. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Darlington, Beth (ed.). 1981. The love letters of William and Mary Wordsworth. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

Darlington, Beth (ed.). 1981. The love letters of William and Mary Wordsworth. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Selincourt, E. de (ed.). The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 7 Volumes. Revised by C.L. Shaver and A.G. Hill (1939-1988).

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Pettit, Henry (ed.). 1971. The Correspondence. London.

 

Additional information on eighteenth-century letters:

Samuel Richardson

Appendix in T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel. 1971. Samuel Richardson. A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 

  • “Richardson’s Correspondence”: all letters located, in-letters, out-letters (pp. 620-704).

  Burney Family

Hemlow, Joyce, with Jeanne Burgess and Althea Douglas. 1971. A Catalogue of the Burney Family of the Burney family Correspondence, 1749-1878. New York: New York Public Library/ Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

  George Washington  

Fitzpatrick, John C. 1915. Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, with the Officers. 4. vols. Washington.

 

the nineteenth century

Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

Chambers, Neil (ed.). 2000. The Letters of Joseph Banks. London: Imperial College Press.

Comments:

  • the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, including his correspondence, have been made available online by the National Library of New South Wales.

The Brontës

The Brontë letters, selected and with an introduction by Muriel Spark. 1954. London: MacMillan.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

        Berridge, E. (ed.). 1974. The Barretts at Hope End. The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. London: John Murray.

        Heydon, P.N. and P. Kelley (eds.). 1974. Elizabeth Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, 1845-1846. London: John Murray.

        Huxley, L. (ed.). 1929. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Letters to her sister, 1846-1859. London: John Murray.

        Kintner E. (ed.). 1969. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, 1845-1846. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

        McCarthy, B. (ed.). 1955. Elizabeth Barrett to Mr. Boyd. London: John Murray.

        Miller, B. (ed.). 1954. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. London: John Murray.

        Wise, T.J. (ed.). 1933. Letters of Robert Browning. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1973 reprint; London: Kennikat Press.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

        Bliss, Trudy (ed.). 1953. Thomas Carlyle: Letters to his Wife. London: Gollancz.

Marrs, Edwin W., Jr. (ed.). 1968. The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Brother Alexander, with Related Family Letters. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sanders, C.R. and K.J. Fielding (eds.). 1970-. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Duke Edinburgh Edition, 9 Volumes.

The Clift family

The Clift Family Correspondence, 1792-1846, ed. by Frances Austin. 1991. Sheffield: CECTAL.

The Letters of William Home Clift, 1803-1832, ed. by Frances Austin. 1983. Shaftesbury: Meldon House. 

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Anon. 1980. The Letters of Charles Dickens, Edited by his Sister-in-Law and his Eldest Daughter. London: Chapman & Hall. 2nd edn. 2 Volumes.

House, Madelin and Graham Story (eds.). 1965-1981. The Letters of Charles Dickens. I: 1830-1839; II: 1840-1841; III: 1842-1843; IV: 1844-1846; V: 1847-1849 (with K.J. Fielding). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Haight, G.S. (ed.). 1954. The G. Eliot Letters New Haven: Yale University Press. 7 Volumes.

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

Chapple, J.A.V. and A. Pollard (ed.). 1966. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Sarah Hutchinson

The Letters of Sara Hutchinson from 1800 to 1835, ed. by Kathleen Coburn. 1954. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Charles (1775-1834) and Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)

The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. 1975-. Vol. 1:  1796-1801, Vol. 2: 1801-1809, Vol. 3: 1809-1817. Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Pinney, T. (ed.). 1974-1981. The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Formative Years 1835-1862: I 1835-1854, II 1855-1862, ed. by William E. Fredeman. March 2002. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer.

John Ruskin (1819-1900), John James Ruskin (1785-1864) and Margaret Ruskin (1781-1871)

Bradley, J.L. (ed.). 1955. Ruskin's Letters from Venice, 1851-1852. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Shapiro, H.I. (ed.). 1972. Ruskin in Italy. Letters to his Parents, 1845. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Van Akin Bird, J. (ed.). 1973. The Ruskin Family Letters. The Correspondence of John James Ruskin, his Wife and their Son. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1810-1865)

The Letters and private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, collected and edited by Gordon N. Ray. 1945-1946.
Vol I: 1817-1840.--II. 1841-1851.--III. 1852-1856.--IV. 1857-1863. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Matthias de Vries

M. de Vries, Brieven aan H.J. Koenen, ed. by Sigrid de Jong, Mimi Lakeman, Jan Noordegraaf, Suzanne Pijnacker and Eva Wilders. 1998. Amsterdam: Stichting Neerlandistiek VU/ Münster: Nodus Publikationen.

Mary Wordsworth (1770-1859)

The Letters of Mary Wordsworth 1800-1855, ed. by Mary E. Burton. 1958. London: Oxford Univerity Press.

 

 

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