# Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)

Author: Duckitt, Mabel, 1881- [Editor]; Elgee, Harriet W. (Harriet Wragg), 1881-1972 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12515

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Selected+English+Letters+%28XV-XIX+Centuries%29+Duckitt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 port...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/selected-english-letters-xv-xix-centuries-12515/chapters/30/index.md)