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Other major medieval family letter collections include the Stonor Letters (1420 – 1483 CE), Plumpton letters (1416 – 1552 CE), and Cely Letters (1472-1488 CE). [ 7 ] Letters were a chief form of communication, in both personal and business communications, for many centuries before telegraphy , telephony , and Internet communications reduced ...
Margaret McCarthy (1825 or 1826 – death date unknown) was an Irish migrant to the United States.. On September 22, 1850, she wrote a letter to her family, as a guide for other emigrants.
Paston Letters 1422–1509 AD: A Reprint of the Edition of 1872–5 which Contained upwards of Five Hundred Letters, etc., till then Unpublished to Which are now Added Others in a Supplement after the Introduction. Edited by James Gairdner of the Public Record Office. Volume 1, Henry VI 1422–1461, Edinburgh, 1910
In R. B. Freeman's Charles Darwin bibliography, he noted that the publication "contains a large number of letters from Charles and is an important source of information about his day to day and family life". [5] The 1915 edition also contains a brief biography of Erasmus Darwin IV, Emma's grandson who had been recently killed in the First World ...
Members of Malcolm X's family have made public what they described as a letter written by a deceased police officer stating that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 killing ...
For example, based on the sample of writings, the letters show that women of the propertied class adopted three practices when writing: 1) dictating a letter to a literate transcriber; 2) dictating the content but personally writing a signature, greetings, and postscript; and, 3) writing the letter in its entirety. [9]
The letter continued: "We may sound harsh, but your interracial family is not welcome here. We will contact your landlord and tell them to evict you if you don't vacate in the next 60 days.”
He added letters in 1366, bringing his first collection of letters to 350. He broke these down and sorted them into 24 volumes. This first collection of letters called Epistolae familiares were actually written between the years 1325 and 1366 (the first translation into English was done by historian James Harvey Robinson in 1898 in his book The ...