Correspondence Books
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 68 - September/October 1668
Samuel PepysDiary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 68: September/October 1668 written by himself...
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21 - March/April 1662-63
Samuel PepysDiary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 written by himself...
Letters of Pliny
PlinyThe largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of..
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick HenryGive Me Liberty or Give Me Death is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia...
Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II
Horace WalpoleHoratio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenh..
Mozart - The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
Henry Edward KrehbielThe German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical th..
A Bundle of Letters
Henry JamesA Bundle of Letters is a literary work written by Henry James, an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is consid..
A Publisher and His Friends
Samuel SmilesA Publisher and His Friends, Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843. Preface from the book:When my Grandfather's Memoirs were publ..