Letterwriting in Renaissance England /

Letterwriting in Renaissance England /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Folger Shakespeare Library.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2004.
Description:	214 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English letters -- Exhibitions. English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Exhibitions. Manuscripts, Renaissance -- England -- Facsimiles -- Exhibitions. Manuscripts, English -- Facsimiles -- Exhibitions. Letter writing -- History -- 16th century -- Exhibitions. Letter writing -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. Nobility -- Great Britain -- Correspondence -- Exhibitions. English letters. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Early modern. Kings and rulers. Letter writing. Manuscripts, English. Manuscripts, Renaissance. Nobility. Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Correspondence -- Exhibitions. England. Great Britain. Exhibition catalogs. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5753321

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Stewart, Alan, 1967- Wolfe, Heather, 1971-
ISBN:	0295985097
Notes:	"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Letterwriting in Renaissance England presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from November 18, 2004-through April 2, 2005"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211) and index.

Table of Contents:

Textual conventions
"To the knowing reader of familiar letters"
Introduction
Tools
Manuals
The material letter and social signals
Secretaries
Love and friendship
The postal "system"
Lost and found
The afterlife of letters.