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Holcombe, James P. LITERATURE IN LETTERS
New York D. Appleton & Company 1866 Hardcover Very Good
8vo ; xvi, 520 pages; Former owner's name on title page, hand written comment on recto and verso of blank page opposite title, otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. An amazing collection of briliant and entertaining letters helpfully arranged in various categories: Book the First: Gossip, Society and Manners in Letters; Book the Second: Letters of Pleasantry, Sentiment and Fancy; Book the Third: Sketches of Nature, Art and Travel in Letters; Book the Fourth: Public History, Illustrated in Letters; Book the Fifth: Literary Biography, Anecdote and Criticism in Letters; Book the Sixth: Letters of Moral and Devotional Reflection. The editor has gathered wonderful letters from notable figures in literature and history. Lady Wortly Montagu, Madame de Sevigny, Samuel Pepys, Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, Lord Byron, Alecander Pope, Mr. Penruddick, Ignatius Santo, Lady Dufferin, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, CHarles Lamb, Thomas Gray, Percy B. Shelley, Queen Anne Boleyn, Fisher Ames, Abigail Adams, Oliver Cromwell, Alexander Humboldt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hannah More and dozens more.
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