Letter collection

A letter collection or collection of letters consists of a publication, usually a book, containing a compilation of letters written by a real person.

Unlike an epistolary novel, a collection of letters belongs to non-fiction literature. Letter collections have a strong link with biographies, autobiographies and historical narrations.[1] Some biographies have been written in the form of "Life and letters"; in these cases the biographer has access to most of the surviving correspondence of the subject which usually includes a selection from both sides of that person's correspondence. The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields (1912), was a biography of her teacher by Ernestine Mills.[2]

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References
  1. On the nature of ancient letter collections
  2. Mills, Ernestine (1912). The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields. London: Longmans, Green and Co.


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