Athenian letters
Subtitle: or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the king of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. A new edition; to which is prefixed a geographical index. In two volumes. Illustrated with engravings, and a map of ancient Greece ...
Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies
Published: 1810
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Fiction
Notes: The work of a group of English writers each letter being signed by an initial indicating the author, as follows. P.-Philip Yorke; C.-Charles Yorke; R.-G.H. Rooke; G.-John Green; W.-Daniel Wray; H.-Henry Heaton; E.-Wm. Heberden; O.-Henry Coventry; L.-John Lawry; T.-Catherine Talbot; B.-Thomas Birch; S.-Samuel Salter. The work was edited by Thomas Birch, the brothers Yorke having the largest share in the composition of the letters.

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