Sent as a gift : eight correspondences from the eighteenth century / edited by Alan T. McKenzie.

Accounts of an eyewitness : Defoe's dispatches from the Vale of Trade and the Edinburgh Parliament House / Paula R. Backscheider
Courtliness, business, and form in the correspondence of Lord Chesterfield / Alan T. McKenzie
Banter and testimony, supplication and praise, in the letters of Christopher Smart / Betty Rizzo
Real business, elegant civility, and rhetorical structure in two letters by Charles Burney / Alvaro Ribeiro
Responses to tyrants : Robert Dodsley to William Warburton and to David Garrick / James E. Tierney
Edifying the young dog : Johnson's letters to Boswell / Lance E. Wilcox
The paradox of the actress : morality, profession, and behavior in two letters by Denis Diderot / Emita B. Hill
Prose and power in two letters by Jane Austen / Susan C. Whealler.