Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries). Various

       TO SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT

       TO WALTER SCOTT

       TO LADY BEAUMONT

       TO SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT

       SIR WALTER SCOTT

       TO HIS MOTHER

       TO MISS SEWARD

       TO LADY LOUISA STUART

       TO ROBERT SOUTHEY

       TO J.B.S. MORRITT

       TO THE SAME

       TO LORD MONTAGU

       TO J.B.S. MORRITT

       TO MARIA EDGEWORTH

       SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

       TO CHARLES LAMB

       TO JOSEPH COTTLE

       TO JOSIAH WADE

       TO THOMAS ALLSOP

       TO THE SAME

       TO THE SAME

       ROBERT SOUTHEY

       TO JOSEPH COTTLE

       TO JOHN MAY

       TO EDWARD MOXON

       =CHARLES LAMB=

       TO SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

       TO THE SAME

       TO THE SAME

       TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

       TO THOMAS MANNING

       TO THE SAME

       TO THE SAME

       WILLIAM HAZLITT

       TO HIS SON

       LEIGH HUNT

       GEORGE GORDON NOEL,. LORD BYRON

       TO THOMAS MOORE

       TO JOHN MURRAY

       TO THE SAME

       TO THE SAME

       PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792-1822

       JOHN KEATS

       TO RICHARD WOODHOUSE

       TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

       THOMAS HOOD

       TO THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM

       ROBERT BROWNING

       CHARLOTTE BRONTË

       TO A FRIEND

       TO A FRIEND

       TO THE SAME

       TO A FRIEND

       TO THE SAME

PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      This anthology has been compiled with rather mixed motives. First, 'all for our delight'—a rule that editors sometimes observe, and occasionally acknowledge; then, with the desire to interest as large a section of the public as may be. Here is a medley of gay, grave, frivolous, homely, religious, sociable, refined, philosophic, and feminine—something for every mood, and for the proper study of mankind. We do not hope to satisfy all critics, but we do not anticipate that we shall please none. Our difficulty has been that of choice. Many pleasant companions we have had to pass by; to strike from our list many excellent letters. Those that remain are intended to present as complete a portrait of the writer as space permits. Occasionally it was some feature of the age, some nicety of manners, some contrast in point of view, that obtained inclusion.

      Into such