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The Paston Letters are a collection of correspondence between members of the Paston family of Norfolk gentry and others connected with them in England between the years 1422 and 1509. The collection also includes state papers and other important documents.
The Plumpton Correspondence is a rare collection of 250 letters and writings from 1461 to 1552 that have survived to the modern day. The writings contains day-to-day writings of William Plumpton and his family, revealing the daily lives of a medieval family of knightly status who held estates in the Knaresborough area of North Yorkshire.
The Stonor Letters are one of the significant collections of 15th century correspondence that have survived. This series of documents, though not the earliest private letters known in English, has more number and variety in terms of interest, [1] along with the other two major collections from this period, which are the Paston Letters and the Cely Letters.
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Historians of the medieval period often study family letter collections, which gather the personal and business correspondence of a group of related people and shed light on their daily life. The Paston Letters (1425 – 1520 CE) are widely studied for insight into life in Britain during the Wars of the Roses. [7]
It was a flashback to 1999 on "Antiques Roadshow," and the estimated value of some of the items was mind-blowing. One of those items was a historical collection of letters from one of the first ...
After these letters have served their original purpose, a letter collection gathers them to be republished as a group. [1] Letter collections, as a form of life writing, serve a biographical purpose. [2] They also typically select and organize the letters to serve an aesthetic or didactic aim, as in literary belles-lettres and religious ...
Pages in category "Medieval letter collections" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.