Chapter II: Appendix: To Introduction

GREEK LETTERS--SYNESIUS 100

(i) To his Brother--Preparations to meet Raiders.
(ii) To Hypatia--Longing but unable to come
to her.

LATIN LETTERS--PLINY 102

Accepts a Brief for a Lady.

LETTERS OF THE "DARK" AGES--SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS 105

The exploits of Ecdicius.

EARLY MEDIAEVAL (TWELFTH CENTURY) LETTER 108

Duchess of Burgundy to King Louis VII.--Matchmaking.

ENGLISH LETTERS

THE "PASTON" LETTERS 111

1. A Channel Fight.
2. Margery is Willing.

ROGER ASCHAM 116

3. "Up the Rhine."
4. Nostalgia for Cambridge.

LADY MARY SIDNEY 122

5. Have you no room at Court?

GEORGE CLIFFORD, EARL OF CUMBERLAND 125

6. A Death-bed letter.

JOHN DONNE 129

7-10. Letters to Magdalen Lady Herbert.

JAMES HOWELL 135

11. "Long Melford for Ever."
12. The White Bird.

JOHN EVELYN 139

13. How to take care of ears, eyes and brains.

DOROTHY OSBORNE 146

14. A discourse of Flying, and several other things.
15. Some testimonies of kindness.

JONATHAN SWIFT 154

16. Letter-hunger.

LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU 159

17. Directions for running away with her.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 164

18. Some manners that make a gentleman.

GEORGE BALLARD 173

19. The wickedness of Reviewers.

THOMAS GRAY 180

20. Romanities and Plain English.
21. Kent, Rousseau, Lord Chatham, etc.

HORACE WALPOLE (AND W. M. THACKERAY) 187

22. What Horace wrote.
23. What Horace might have written.

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT 195

24. Of Johnson, and Johnson's Frank--To Wilkes.

WILLIAM COWPER 197

25. About a Greenhouse.

SYDNEY SMITH 201

26. Vegetation, stagnation, and assassination.
27. His "hotel." Hasty judgments deprecated.

SIR WALTER SCOTT 206

28. Authors and Morals.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 212

29. From Spinosa to Go_b_win through things in general.

ROBERT SOUTHEY 217

30-33. The _Lingo Grande_.

CHARLES LAMB 221

34. A Sigh for Solitude.

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 228

35. Of Pictures, and Sepulture, and his Daughters.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 233

36. Of Pictures only.

JOHN KEATS 239

37. A Voyage, and the _Quarterly_ and Charmian.

THE CARLYLES 244

38. Thomas on _Latrappism_.
39. Jane Welsh on her Travels.
40. Jane Welsh on the blessings of Photography.

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 253

41. Outfits, and Election Dinners. Miss Berry and
Lady Holland.

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 258

42. Stage-coach tricks, and stage-play ghosts.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 263

43. An extended Honey-moon.

EDWARD FITZGERALD 270

44. Of Bath, and Oxford, and some Immortals.

FRANCIS ANNE KEMBLE 275

45. A Ghost in Flannel.
46. Bakespearism.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 279

47. As himself.
48. In character.

CHARLES DICKENS 286

49. Straight dealing with the personages of _Nicholas
Nickleby_.
50. Advice to an Innocent in London.
51. Mr. and Mrs. Harris.

CHARLES KINGSLEY 292

52. _Tom Brown's Schooldays_; Pike fishing; and a
pretty thing with Garth's.

JOHN RUSKIN 296

53. The Servant question.

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON 303

54. John Gibson Lockhart, and an Umbrella.