Empire of Letters
Subtitle: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 16801820
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521856188
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Letter writing; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; British Isles; Letters; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English letters; 18th century; American letters; History
First sentence: In the introduction to his best-selling letter manual, The Young Secretary's Guide, or Speedy Help to Learning (1687), John Hill still thought it necessary to explain the purposes and uses of letter-writing.