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Frances Burney's letter of 1811 recreated a moment at which the whole body becomes a disabled body as the mastectomy cuts to the heart of her feminine identity as defined by late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century culture. The letter addressed to her sister portrays dominant discourse of her time about disability, the female body and ideas of ideal femininity.

Two unpublished letters written by, an opponent of Napoleon III's regime in France, are presented. They deal with the religious question in republicanism, in which he advocates the separation of church and state, and an adherence to liberal Protestantism instead of the Roman Catholic Church.

Twelve Verdi letters written by the French baritone Victor Maurel and other operatic and musical theater sources are analyzed. They discuss his role of Falstaff in Verdi's play and serve as a source for 19th century operatic, music and film studies.

The article discusses a number of letters about the novelist Suzannah Minifie Gunning and her daughter written by the novelist herself.

Hume was reading the book 'Dialogues of the Dead' by Lucian shortly before he breathed his last as written by Adam Smith in his letter to Strahan is presented. It was noted that Hume was busy till the last correcting his writings and arranging the publication of his Dialogues on Natural Religion without Adam Smith's help.

The two letters written by Caroline Norton to Charles Molloy Westmacott is described. These letters make it likely that the chief exclusive source was Caroline Norton herself, and shed light on how she used one of the organs of the Conservative Party press to bolster the case of her innocence.

The discovery of five unpublished letters by the Solomons brothers to the Rossetti brothers suggest that the relationship between the two families was more familiar than previously acknowledged by Pre-Raphaelite scholars. These letters provide new information about the lives of the Solomon brothers.

This article provides a forum for readers' letters to the editor. Letters address and/or respond to previous reviews of books in this periodical.

The article is an interpretation of the letters received by royal physician Don Juan Munoz y Peralta from other physicians and patients, consulting him about particular cases. The aim of this article is to analyze the nonprofessional word of patients who are not trained in medicine and that the history of the illness should be examined from the point of view of the patient rather than the traditional approach based completely on the view of medical practitioners.

The article discusses the letters, which were written by the theoretical physicist, Paul Ehrenfest to his former PhD students one year before committing suicide. The letters are kept in a museum and are studied to know more about the physicist's life.

The article discusses the efforts of commentators to analyze the use of certain words by Jerome in his letter about Nepotianus in Epist. 60.11.2.

Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman landowner wrote the letter to a fellow landowner named Pudens regarding the matter of two lovers from their estates who eloped. The response of these aristocrats to this matter shows the political and social transformations of late Roman Gaul that imposed constraints and limitations upon their behavior and their responses to these transformations.

Two formerly unpublished letters that addressed Evelyn Waugh's despair over the news of the liturgical reforms from the Second Vatican Council are presented. Both letters demonstrate the deeply personal nature of the relationship between D'Arcy and Waugh.

The article explores the possible relationship between Thomas Rodick and the poet Isabella Lickbarrow in the context of a letter written by Rodick asking Lord Lonsdale to send a sum of money to Lickbarrow for her volume on the death of Princess Charlotte.

Musician John Cage's letter to writer and critic Peter Yates, dated December 24, 1940, is presented. It reveals how Cage provided some suggestions to help Yates write his article 'Organized Sound'.

A note is given to supplement 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope'. The correspondences mentioned are Pope and Henry Bedingfield, Father William Mannock, Lady Swinburne, A Letter from Bath, The Gage Family, and Other Identification.

There is no direct claim that a preference for four words is distinctive of Chettle as opposed to Munday, if the original text of Sir Thomas More is compared with Henry Chettle. According to a study of rhymes, Sir Thomas More showed strong convergences with Hoffman in five scenes, which provide at least 38 links with More.

Iowa born Edwin Lyon Dean started working in the railroads in 1876 and after four years of experience joined the Mexican Central Railway project in 1880, thus becoming involved in the linking of Paso de Norte with Chihuahua in Mexico. Some of the records of his personal impressions and letters to his parents, with detailed descriptions of the city and its people has been given.

The response to New Zealand of one emigrant, Mark Taylor, is examined to show how her letters home and her one novel, chart the emergence of sensibilities that were further developed in later writings by Pakeha women authorities. She wrote home to her friends describing her life in the colony and Joan Stevens collected her letters together in an edited and annotated edition.

Distinguishing factors of seventeenth-and eighteenth century letters are discussed. Readers and writers also recognized that epistolary texts had to be read with some degree of sensitivity.

A naturalistic set of all the letters of recommendation for successful applicants for female and male faculty positions in a large American medical school in the mid-1990s are analyzed for the study. The corpus and discourse analysis with the theoretical perspective of gender schema from cognitive psychology isused.

Few letters exchanged during the wars by language officers from Japan, China, Korea including a letter from David Osborn who took part in the surrender ceremonies of islands in the South Pacific are illustrated.