African Studies Thesaurus

letters (form)       Search catalogue 294922105

Scope note
Designates published correspondence.

User tips
For publications ABOUT letters, use letters. Examples: 1. 'Our children free and happy', letters from black settlers in Africa in the 1790s / ed. by Christopher Fyfe. Descriptors: Sierra Leone, colonists, freedmen, letters (form) 2. Correspondence as a new source for African history, some evidence from colonial Eritrea / Irma Taddia. Descriptors: Eritrea, letters, historical sources

Used for
correspondence (form)

Broader terms
primary documents (form)

Related terms
letters
postcards (form)

Subject category
19.03 LITERARY GENRES

Indexing history
Also covers publications about letters indexed before 2006.

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