Cultures of correspondence in early modern Britain

Introduction. The early modern letter opener / James Daybell and Andrew Gordon

Part I. Material practices. From Palatino to Cresci : Italian writing books and the Italic scripts of early modern English letters / Jonathan Gibson

Conveying correspondence : early modern letter bearers, carriers, and posts / Mark Brayshay

Part II. Technologies and designs. Enigmatic cultures of cryptology / Nadine Akkerman

Material fictions : counterfeit correspondence and the culture of copying in early modern England / Andrew Gordon

Allegory and epistolarity : cipher and faction in Sidney and Spenser / Andrew Zurcher

Part III. Genres and rhetorics. Mixed messages and Cicero effects in the Herrick Family letters of the sixteenth century / Lynne Magnusson

John Stubb's left-handed letters / Christopher Burlinson

"An uncivill scurrilous letter" : "womanish brabb[l]es" and the letter of affront / Michelle O'Callaghan

Part IV. The afterlives of letters. "Burn this letter" : preservation and destruction in the early modern archive / Arnold Hunt

Gendered archival practices and the future lives of letters / James Daybell

Familiar letters and state papers : the afterlives of early modern correspondence / Alan Stewart.