Letters, Correspondence, and Epistolary Novels

This Letters CD, with the full text of 103 books of letters and correspondence and epistolary novels, includes Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Cicero, Pliny, Anton Chekhov, George Sand, Mozart, Wagner, and others.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

You can see the complete table of contents below. Please use the Find function in your browser (under Edit) to look for a specific author or book.

Main sections

• American Letters
• British (English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh) Letters
• Canadian Letters
• French Letters
• German and Austrian Letters
• Hungarian Letters
• Italian Letters
• Latin Letters
• Russian Letters
• Religious Epistles
• Correspondence
• Epistolary Novels and Stories

Table of Contents

American Letters

Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928)

• On the Edge of the War Zone

C.C. Andrews

• Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856

Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)

• A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation in Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticiy of the Same by Hosea Ballou

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

• Letters of a Traveller, 1850

Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1731-1813)

• Letters from an American Farmer

Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)

• Adventures and Letters

Franklin Lane

• Letters of Franklin Lane

General Robert E. Lee

• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by his son Captain Robert E. Lee

Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln Letters (short)

Samuel Morse

Letters of Samuel F.B. Morse

• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Frances Roe

• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife

Theodore Roosevelt

• Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine

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British (English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh) Letters

Lord Bolingbroke

• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope

George Borrow (1803-1881)

• Letters

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

• Letters from America

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• Letters of Elizarbeth Barrett Browning, volume 1 of 2, edited by Frederic Kenyon

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Life and Letters of Robert Browing by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• Letters of Robert Burns, edited by J. Jogie Robertson

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Letters and Journals
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

• Letters to His Son

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• Biographia Epistolaris, volume 1

Stephen Coleridge

• The Glory of English Prose: Letters to My Grandson

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

• Notes on Life and Letters

Madame d'Arblay ( = Fanny Burney, see epistolary novels below) (1752-1840)

• Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay
• volume 1, 1778-1787
• volume 2, 1787-1792

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• More Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

John Gay  (1685-1732)

• Life and Letters of John Gay by Lewis Melville

Thomas Huxley

Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley by Leonard Huxley

• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3

Charles (1775-1834) and Mary (1764-1847) Lamb

• Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
• Volume 5 -- Letters
• Volume 6 -- Letters

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

• Letters on Literature
• Letters to Dead Authors

Thomas Babbington, Lord Macaulay

• Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1, by Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Lord Nelson (1758-1805)

• Letters to Lady Hamilton
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

• A Publisher and His Friends, memoir and correspondence of John Murray by Samuel Smiles

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh
• Letters to Gabriel Harvey

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Letters

• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

• Letters
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4

Mary Wollstonecraft (wife of William Godwin, mother of Mary Shelley) (1759-1797)

• Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

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Canadian Letters

James, Earl of Elgin

• Letters and Journals of James, Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, and Viceroy of India

Marquess of Dufferin

• Letters from High Latitudes, Being some account of a voyage in 1856 of the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen

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French Letters

L. De Hegermann-Lindencrone

• In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875 from Contemporary Letters

Ninon de l'Enclos

• Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century by Robinson and Overton, 1903

George Sand

• Nouvelles Lettres d'un Voyageur

Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

• Letters on England, in English

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German and Austrian Letters

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Briefe aus der Sweiz

in German with accents

in German without accents

Justus Liebig

• Familiar Letters on Chemistry

Martin Luther

• Open Letter on Translating (short)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, volume 1

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

• Philosophical Letters

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Hungarian Letters

Franz Liszt

Letters of Franz Liszt, collected by La Mara and translated by Constance Bache

• Volume 1: From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso
• Volume 2: From Rome to the End

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Italian Letters

Saint Catherine of Siena

• Letters of Catherine Benincasa (Saint Catherine of Siena)

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Latin Letters

Cicero

• Letters, translated to English by E.S. Shuckburgh

Pliny the Younger

• Letters, in English

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Russian Letters

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

• Letters, translated by Constance Garnett

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Religious Epistles

from the Apocrypha

• Epistle of Jeremiah

from Non-Canonic Biblical Works

• The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles by Archbishop Wake

from the New Testament

• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Phillippians
• Collossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander McLaren
• John 1
• John 2

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Correspondence

Carlyle and Emerson

• Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Isaac Brock

• Life and Corrspondence of Major-General Sir ISaac Brock

George Sand

• Correspondence 1812-1876, in French
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4

Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876) and George Sand (pseudonym of Lucile Amandine Aurore Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant) (1804-1876)

• George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters

Wagner and Liszt

• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Louis Agassiz

• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

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Epistolary Novels and Stories and Essays and Advice

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

• Letters of Two Brides, translated to English by R.S. Scott

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

• Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

Fanny Burney ( = Madame d'Arblay, see British Letters above) (1752-1840

• Evelina

William Cobbett

• Cobbett's Advice to Young Men

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

• Lettres de Mon Moulin
• in French, with accents
• in French, without accents

Madame la Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

• Delphine (in French)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• The Stark Munro Letters

Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (1821-1881)

• Poor Folk, translated by C. J. Hogarth

William Godwin (husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley) (1756-1836)

• Italian Letters of the History of the Count de Julian

Susannah Gunning (1740?-1800)

• Barford Abbey

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

• A Book of Autographs, from The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

Henry James (1843-1916)

• A Bundle of Letters (story)_

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

• Clarissa Harlowe
• volume 1 (of 9)
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• volume 9
• Pamela
• volume 1
• volume 2

George Sand (1804-1876)

• Lavinia (in Frency)

Sir Walter Scott

• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, wife of Percy Shelley) (1797-1851)

• Frankenstein

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)

• Humphry Clinker

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

• Vailima Letters

Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

• Dracula

Barney Stone

• Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie

Edward Streeter

• Dere Mabel: Love Letters of a Rookie