Category Archives: 18th-century letters

Horace Walpole’s letters online

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Horace Walpole was an inveterate letter writer, and his correspondence is probably the largest collection of letters that is available for analysis, linguistic and otherwise. Froukje Henstra is writing a PhD thesis on the language of the letters. A short … Continue reading →

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Letters exhibition at Leiden

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Last year, an exhibition was held at the Leiden University Library of letters from the late modern period, Dutch as well as English ones. It was called Ach schrijf mij toch!, which expresses the need for letters from far-away loved … Continue reading →

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Boswell in Leiden

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Source: University of Leiden, BPL 246/ Boswell 1763/1764). The letter is addressed to Abraham Gronovius, (1695-1775), Librarian of the University of Leiden. Gronovius was a former fellow student of James Boswell’s father. The letter is undated, but it must have been … Continue reading →

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