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The English Letters Collection

The Eighteenth Century 

“You are producing an outstandingly helpful scholarly resource of ever-increasing value.”
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University of Cambridge

Database Language: English 

Contents:  48 volumes of correspondence of important figures in eighteenth century England, all from Oxford University Press. The database contains the following works:
 

  • Halley, Edmond. Correspondence and papers of Edmond Halley, preceded by an unpublished memoir of his life by one of his contemporaries and the 'Éloge' by D'Ortous de Mairan. Arranged and edited by Eugene Fairfield MacPike. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.
  • Defoe, Daniel. Letters. Edited by George Harris Healey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
  • Steele, Richard. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Edited by Rae Blanchard. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

  • Wanley, Humfrey. Letters of Humfrey Wanley, palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, librarian, 1672-1726. With an appendix of documents. Edited by P.L. Heyworth. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Addison, Joseph. The Letters of Joseph Addison. Edited by Walter Graham. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1941.
  • Young, Edward. The Correspondence of Edward Young, 1683-1765. Edited by Henry Pettit. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
  • Gay, John. The Letters of John Gay. Edited by C.F. Burgess. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
  • Richardson, Samuel. Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson. Edited, with an introduction by John Carroll. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.
  • Montagu, Mary (Pierrepont) Wortley, Lady. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Edited by Robert Halsband. 3 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-67.
  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of. Lord Chesterfield's Letters. Edited with an introduction by David Roberts. New York: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) 1998.
  • Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Edited by Martin C. Battestin and Clive T. Probyn. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, c1993.
  • Sterne, Laurence. Letters of Laurence Sterne. Edited by Lewis Perry Curtis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935 rpt.1967.
  • Gray, Thomas. Correspondence of Thomas Gray. Edited by Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley. 3 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935, reprinted with corrections and additions by H.W. Starr 1971.
  • Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford. Chronologically arranged and edited with notes by Helen Toynbee. 16 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903-5.
  • Smollett, Tobias. The Letters of Tobias Smollett. Edited by Lewis M. Knapp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
  • Burke, Edmund. Letters of Edmund Burke - a selection. Edited, with an introduction, by Harold J. Laski. London/New York: Oxford University Press, 1922.
  • Cowper, William. The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp. 5 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1979-1986.
  • Temple, William Johnston. Diaries of William Johnston Temple, 1780-1796. Edited with a memoir by Lewis Bettany. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929.
  • Boswell, James. Letters of James Boswell. Collected and edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. 2 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • Jones, William. The Letters of Sir William Jones. Edited by Garland Cannon. 2 volumes Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1970.
  • Sheridan, Richard. The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Edited by Cecil Price. 3 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.


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