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A written or printed message, chiefly a
personal communication. Letters are valuable
as reflections of social conditions and of
literary and political life. Legally,
ownership of a letter (as a document) passes
to the recipient, but the copyright remains
with the writer. Outstanding examples
include: ancient Cicero, Pliny the Younger,
and St Paul; medieval Abelard and Heloise
(12th-century France), the Paston letters
(15th-century England); 16th century Erasmus
(the Netherlands), Luther, Melanchthon
(Germany), Spenser, Sidney (England); 17th
century Donne, Milton, Cromwell, Dorothy
Osborne, Wotton (England); Pascal, Mme de
Sevigne (France); 18th century Pope, Walpole,
Swift, Mary Wortley Montagu, Chesterfield,
Cowper, Gray (England); Bossuet, Voltaire,
Rousseau (France); 19th century Byron, Lamb,
Keats, Fitzgerald, Stevenson (England);
Emerson, J R Lowell (USA); George Sand,
Saint-Beuve, Goncourt brothers (France);
Schiller, Goethe (Germany); Gottfried Keller
(Switzerland); 20th century T E Lawrence, G B
Shaw, Ellen Terry, Katherine Mansfield
(England); Rilke (Germany). medieval Abelard
and Heloise (12th-century France), the Paston
letters (15th-century England); 16th century
Erasmus (the Netherlands), Luther,
Melanchthon (Germany), Spenser, Sidney
(England); 17th century Donne, Milton,
Cromwell, Dorothy Osborne, Wotton (England);
Pascal, Mme de Sevigne (France); 18th century
Pope, Walpole, Swift, Mary Wortley Montagu,
Chesterfield, Cowper, Gray (England);
Bossuet, Voltaire, Rousseau (France); 19th
century Emerson, J R Lowell (US); Byron,
Lamb, Keats, Fitzgerald, Stevenson (England);
George Sand, Saint-Beuve, Goncourt brothers
(France); Schiller, Goethe (Germany);
Gottfried Keller (Switzerland); 20th century
T E Lawrence, G B Shaw, Ellen Terry,
Katherine Mansfield (England); Rilke
(Germany).