3. The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750–1800

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Letters and the Social Grounding of Differentiated Genres 15
5. 3. The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750–1800 31
6. 4. Letter Writing in a Cornish Community in the 1790s 43
7. 5. English Pauper Letters 1800–34, and the English Language 63
8. 6. The Materiality of Letter Writing 83
9. 7. Letter-Writing Instruction in 19th Century Schools in the United States 109
10. 8. Young Children’s Explorations of Letter Writing 131
11. 9. Death Row Penfriends 151
12. 10. ‘ Absolute Truly Brill to See From You’ 179
13. 11. True Traces 199
14. 12. Teaching Letters 209
15. 13. Computer-Mediated Communication 233
16. Author biographies 253
17. Index of Names 257
18. Index of Subjects 259