Letter, Diaries

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, howeve …

Between 1856 and 1878, Robert A. Harrison kept a diary. Harrison, a Toronto lawyer often described as the outstanding common law lawyer of his generation, was Chief Justice of Ontario during that tim …

First Published in 1968. Including a translators preface, and two volumes, Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation (J. G. H.) at the Court of Czar Peter the Great is translated from the Original L …

Though her life was largely circumscribed by domesticity and poverty both in England and in Canada, Catharine Parr Traill’s interests, experiences, and contacts were broad and various. Her contributi …

Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteen …

The letters in this volume cover Erasmus” correspondence from March to December 1527. These 129 letters centre primarily on Erasmus” continuing struggle with his Catholic critics, especially those …

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher”s personal writings from his trip, including le …

Both respected as leading thinkers of the day in their respective countries, Carlyle and Emerson enjoyed a lifelong friendship dating from Emerson’s first visit to England in 1832. Their voluminous c …

Both respected as leading thinkers of the day in their respective countries, Carlyle and Emerson enjoyed a lifelong friendship dating from Emerson’s first visit to England in 1832. Their voluminous c …

Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few Europea …