A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 144
... week after Pepys ' letter was the worst week of the Great Plague . Out of the population of 460,000 in London , 8297 people died . The total number of deaths from plague in 1665 totaled almost seventy thousand . Bishop Burnet , in his ...
... week after Pepys ' letter was the worst week of the Great Plague . Out of the population of 460,000 in London , 8297 people died . The total number of deaths from plague in 1665 totaled almost seventy thousand . Bishop Burnet , in his ...
Page 187
... week this twelvemonth ) that I am arrived safe at Calais , & am at present at Florence , a city in Italy in I don't know how many degrees N : latitude . under the Line I am sure it is not , for I am at this instant expireing with Cold ...
... week this twelvemonth ) that I am arrived safe at Calais , & am at present at Florence , a city in Italy in I don't know how many degrees N : latitude . under the Line I am sure it is not , for I am at this instant expireing with Cold ...
Page 340
... week ; the week following must be given to her to take a last look at her Child ; and then , Dearest , God willing , I am your own for ever and ever . This day fortnight would suit me better than Thursday ; for , you know , after the ...
... week ; the week following must be given to her to take a last look at her Child ; and then , Dearest , God willing , I am your own for ever and ever . This day fortnight would suit me better than Thursday ; for , you know , after the ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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