San Antonio College Library

"This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new edition of forty volumes will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found and, for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order. To...

Petrarch's letters are both typical and exceptional. They are typical as records of life in the gloomy latter end of the Middle Ages in Europe, especially in Italy and southern France. They are packed with information about the literary, eccesiastical, and courtly worlds, about food, clothing, travel, medicine, agriculture, and the routine of ordinary existence. They are also typical in their expression of the ideas and responses which all men of...

Selected letters by the author of "Phenomenon of Man" written during paleontological expeditions in Asia and Africa.

One of the foremost composers of his generation, Berlioz was even more influential as an arbiter of musical taste and a writer of critical essays for the Parisian Journal des debats. But professional journalism was sometimes an unwelcome task for Berlioz, who felt hindered by considerations of diplomacy and censorship. Letter writing, by contrast, provided him with a freer outlet for creative expression, and his surviving correspondences number in...