James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at Plymouth University. Andrew Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Codirector of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen.

"Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain is a collection of eleven essays edited by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon, two acknowledged authorities in this lively and fast-growing field . . . .Where this collection really distinguishes itself is in the section on the afterlives of letters. Here, the textual problems raised by the archiving and preservation of letters are thought-provoking and important." (Times Literary Supplement) "Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain overturns the notion that letters are private, unmediated sources of the writer's thoughts and instead reveals and delights in the literary, artful qualities of letters and the cultures of collaboration and rewriting that produced them. By attending to what the editors call the social materiality of letter writing-the physical features of the text; the social and cultural practices of epistolary culture; and the material contexts in which letters were produced-this collection provides a rich sociology of early modern letter writing that will interest and provoke anyone working in early modern studies." (Adam Smyth, University of Oxford)

James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at Plymouth University. Andrew Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Codirector of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen.

"Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain is a collection of eleven essays edited by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon, two acknowledged authorities in this lively and fast-growing field . . . .Where this collection really distinguishes itself is in the section on the afterlives of letters. Here, the textual problems raised by the archiving and preservation of letters are thought-provoking and important." (Times Literary Supplement) "Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain overturns the notion that letters are private, unmediated sources of the writer's thoughts and instead reveals and delights in the literary, artful qualities of letters and the cultures of collaboration and rewriting that produced them. By attending to what the editors call the social materiality of letter writing-the physical features of the text; the social and cultural practices of epistolary culture; and the material contexts in which letters were produced-this collection provides a rich sociology of early modern letter writing that will interest and provoke anyone working in early modern studies." (Adam Smyth, University of Oxford)

James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at Plymouth University. Andrew Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Codirector of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen.

"Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain is a collection of eleven essays edited by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon, two acknowledged authorities in this lively and fast-growing field . . . .Where this collection really distinguishes itself is in the section on the afterlives of letters. Here, the textual problems raised by the archiving and preservation of letters are thought-provoking and important." (Times Literary Supplement) "Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain overturns the notion that letters are private, unmediated sources of the writer's thoughts and instead reveals and delights in the literary, artful qualities of letters and the cultures of collaboration and rewriting that produced them. By attending to what the editors call the social materiality of letter writing-the physical features of the text; the social and cultural practices of epistolary culture; and the material contexts in which letters were produced-this collection provides a rich sociology of early modern letter writing that will interest and provoke anyone working in early modern studies." (Adam Smyth, University of Oxford)