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The Material Letter in Early Modern England

The Material Letter in Early Modern England is the first major comprehensive study of early modern letters, exploring the whole field of letters as a genre and of letter-writing as a social and cultural practice. The book is the result of fifteen years of research; it surveys thirty large collections of correspondence spread around the UK and in major repositories in the US; examines more than 10,000 individual letters and over 100 early modern manuscript letter books. Something of the density and complexity of the book is conveyed by the fifty-six pages of notes and the forty-page select bibliography.