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This article discusses the letters of Samuel Parr, which remain uncollected in a full edition due largely to Parr's poor handwriting. The author focuses on Parr's responses to questions about the education of the young, highlighting the contents of a letter to Sylas Neville.

Dreams and visions played an important part in the medieval universe. They could give religious and moral guidance, but could also provide information on future political events. When the monks [...]

In September 1767 the Mozart family paid a visit to Vienna with a view to Wolfgang's taking part in the celebrations for the forthcoming marriage of the Empress Maria Theresa's [...]

We know little of Gluck's relationships with members of his family. He was the eldest of five boys and two girls. Two of his brothers, Karl and Franz Anton Ludwig, [...]

A NEW edition of the letters of Peter of Blois, whose whole career from about in 1168 till his death in 1212 was based in England, has been a major [...]

ALEXANDER POPE'S friends, acquaintances, and contacts among the aristocracy were extensive, as might be expected from a man whose natural wit and undoubted personal charms were enhanced by a finely [...]

Information about the life of cleric and historian Laurence Echard is provided. Echard was an ordained and active member of the Church of England, and he wrote seven books of geography and contemporary history. Echard's connection with the Tonsons, as seen in his letters, is also examined.

Agnes M.C. Latham focused on a previously unpublished epistolary piece that Sir Walter Ralegh had addressed to his heir, the young Walter. Latham examined Ralegh's 'Instructions to his Son and to Posterity,' and noted that this letter is extant in scribal transcripts in two seventeenth-century manuscripts.

A letter written by Laurence Sterne to James Dodsley on July 29, 1765 was published for the first time in 2006, along with a facsimile of the original now housed in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The letter had gone unnoticed for at least a decade since its purchase. Information about Dodsley's rumored expression of dissatisfaction is also provided.

This article examines two letters written to Jane Bennet by William Shenstone, an 18th century poet, landscpae gardener and arbiter of taste. The author focuses on these letters because they are not included in the other editions of his correspondence with fellow poet Mrs. Bennet.

This article examines an unpublished autographed letter from 1742 by Mark Akenside as a reflection of his state of mind upon his decision to pursue a career as a poet-physician rather than becoming a dissenting minister. The author provides a copy of the letter.

This article discusses Alexander Pope's interest in affairs of state and diplomacy by analyzes his epistles. The author focuses on Pope's portrayal of the scandal surrounding the succession for the Polish throne in 1733, the follies of high society and contemporary high politics.

One of the seven letters written by William Wordsworth to Dr. Charles Henry Parry one of which was written in December 1840 when William Wordsworth and his son had come across an accident and are in the special collections of the Pennsylvania State University Library is described. The contents of Wordsworth's letter to Parry are given.

James S. Osborn in his Young Philip Sidney prints the text, or rather the English translation, of a letter written from Philip Sidney from Prague on 8 April 1577. The [...]

In his article 'Letters from Thomas Percy to Ralph Griffiths' (N&Q, ccxxxviii (1993, 453-6) Nick Groom refers to the 'rediscovery' of one of Percy's letters in the Griffiths correspondence in [...]

This article provides a reprint of a letter by David Hume. The addressee is assumed to be George Lyttleton and the letter concerns a book of Scottish poems published by Lyttleton.