Creating a culture of letters. Introduction: the pen, the post, and the people
Creating the letter: how to acquire epistolary literacy
Sending the letter: the post office and the politics of the mail
Creating a culture of literacy. Letters and literacy: farmers and workers in northern England
Letters of the middling sort: confronting problems of business, religion, gender, and class
From letters to literature. Letter-writing and the rise of the novel: the epistolary literacy of Jane Johnson and Samuel Richardson
Letter-writing, reading, and literary culture: the Johnson family and Anna Miller
Conclusion: letter-writing and eighteenth-century culture: findings, patterns, and impacts.