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Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: Before 1700

Diaries and Letters Before 1700

Personal Writings: reminiscences, spiritual diary, select letters by Saint Ignatius Loyola
Call Number: 271.5092 L95
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
English Family Life, 1576-1716: an anthology from diaries by Ralph Houlbrooke (Editor)
Call Number: 306.85 En36
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
Colonial justice in western Massachusetts, 1639-1702; the Pynchon court record, an original judges' diary of the administration of justice in the Springfield courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. by William Pynchon; Joseph Henry Smith
Call Number: 347.744 M382c
Letters to Father: suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Maria Celeste Galilei; Dava Sobel (Translator)
Call Number: 520.92 G133g
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys; Robert A. Latham (Editor); William Mathews (Editor)
Call Number: 828 P398V3
Publication Date: 1983-01-26
The social life and customs of 17th Century England are portrayed in the diary of Samuel Pepys.
Cicero: Letters to Atticus by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Edited and Translated by); Marcus Tullius Cicero
Call Number: 876 C485eaE B
Publication Date: 1999-04-30
These letters provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Lady Murasaki; Richard Bowring (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); Murasaki Shikibu
Call Number: 895.63 M931X
Publication Date: 1996-10-01

Diaries and Letters Before 1700

The Buccaneers of America: a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coast of the West Indies by John Esquemeling
Call Number: 910.4 Es68b
Publication Date: 1976-06-01
Other Routes: 1500 years of African and Asian travel writing by Tabish Khair (Editor); Justin D. Edwards (Editor); Martin Leer (Editor); Hanna Ziadeh (Editor); Amitav Ghosh (Foreword by)
Call Number: 910.4 Ot3
Publication Date: 2006-01-30
Travel writing by international travelers of Asian and African origin.
The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: a lost manuscript of Nicolas de La Salle, 1682 by Nicolas de La Salle; William C. Foster (Editor, Introduction by, Translator); Johanna S. Warren (Translator)
Call Number: 910.92 L33l
Publication Date: 2003-12-15
Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729 by Halsey M. Thomas (Editor)
Call Number: 920 Se86
Massachusetts
Private Life in the Fifteenth Century: illustrated letters of the Paston family by Roger Virgoe (Editor)
Call Number: 942.04 P939
Throughout the fifteenth century the Paston family of Norfolk, England accumulated property and prominence in English society. William Paston I (1378-1444), the patriarch the family, married Agnes, daughter of Sir Edmund Berry. They were the parents of five children. Their letters create a picture of life in the Paston family of fifteenth century England.
The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart by Arbella Stuart; Sara Jayne Steen (Editor)
Call Number: 942.06 St91l
Publication Date: 1994-12-01
The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: a soldier's diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay with related documents by Margaret R. Hunter; Philip J. Stern
Call Number: 954.03 En36
Publication Date: 2015
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 by Christopher Columbus; Oliver Dunn (Translator); James E. Kelley (Translator); Fray Bartolome de las Casas (Contribution by)
Call Number: 970.01 C723d
ISBN: 0806121017
Publication Date: 1989-03-15
The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico: letters of the missionaries and related documents by J. Manuel Espinosa
Call Number: 970.775 P962
Publication Date: 1991
Hernan Cortes - Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes; Anthony Pagden (Editor, Translator); J. H. Elliot (Introduction by)
Call Number: 972.02 C818l
ISBN: 0300037244
Publication Date: 1987-09-10