Letters
1Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark — Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is a deeply personal travel narrative by the eighteenth century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty five letters cover a wide range of topics, from… …
2Letters patent — are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government, granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or to some entity such as a corporation. The opposite of letters patent (Lat.… …
3Letters close — (Lat. litterae clausae ) are a type of legal document which is a closed letter issued by a monarch or government granting a right, monopoly, title, or status to someone or some entity such as a corporation. These letters are personal in nature… …
4Letters of horning — (Scots law) : a document (ie, letters) issued by civil authorities that publicly denounce a person as a rebel. The document was issued against persons who had not paid their debts.Historically, the documents would be announced by three blasts of… …
5Letters from Hell — (Breve fra Helvede) is a didactic Christian novel by the Danish priest and author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815 1887), [Thisted, Valdemar Adolph. Letters from Hell. By M. Rowel (pseudonym), 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1866.] The work was… …
6Letters to a Young Poet — is a very influential compilation of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke. It consists of 10 letters written to a young man considering entering the German military.BackgroundThe letters were originally written to Franz Kappus, a 19 year old student at… …
7Letters from an American Farmer — And Sketches Of Eighteenth Century America was written by Jean de Crèvecoeur in 1782. Crevecoeur was an exceptional addition to the world of American literature and this was even more obvious with the publishing of his epistolary book.Through a… …
8Letters in the Wind — could refer to: * Letters in the Wind a folk rock album by Will Massey *Letters in the Wind an Israeli TV documentary from 2001 *Letters in the Wind (Namehay Bad) an Iranian film from 2002 *Letters in the Wind a critically acclaimed Albanian… …
9Letters from the Earth — is one of Mark Twain s posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain s life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. Initially, his daughter, Clara Clemens, objected to its… …
10Letters from High Latitudes — is a travel book written by Lord Dufferin in 1856, recounting the young lord s journey to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen in the schooner Foam .When Dufferin was only 15 his father died. In consequence he developed a very close relationship… …
