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  • Shakespeare as a Letter-Writer and Artist in Prose.

    Rodolphe Louis Mégroz Steve 2009

  • The oral quality of early letters returned and was encouraged: “When you write to a friend,” wrote W. H. Dilworth in The Complete Letter-Writer, “your letter should be a picture of your heart.”

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • "Linnaeus, the Letter-Writer" exhibits letters by Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) on the occasion of his 300th birthday.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

  • He seems to have had great fluency in letter-writing; and being solicited by a publisher to write a series of familiar letters on the principal concerns of life, which might be used as models, -- a sort of "Easy Letter-Writer," -- he began the task, but, changing his plan, he wrote a story in a series of letters.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • "The Polite Letter-Writer, or" -- I did not stop to read more; an idea flashed through my mind, and in two minutes more I was beside the counter of the stationer; we soon became acquainted; I left two and sixpence in his shop, and quitted it with renewed hope; the promise of a recommendation, two quires of letter paper, twelve good quills, and some ink in a small phial.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 Various

  • Letter-Writer 'this morning; and the beauty, elegance, and even eloquence of those amazing compositions have so excited me that I want to emulate them.

    The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

  • 'Complete Letter-Writer,' my vade-mecum, which goes into such charming details, can not help me.

    The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

  • I am positive I addressed her as “Dear Madam,” and started off with some sentence from “The Complete Letter-Writer,” so impressed was I that there was a best way to do this thing, and that the book pointed it out.

    Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

  • _Complete Letter-Writer_, he got by mistake a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers, with a few sensible directions for attaining an easy epistolary style.

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • The old Letter-Writer was surveying the pathetic young figure before him through his huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and she smiled on him through her fast-gathering tears.

    The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

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