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letters       Search catalogue 294922091

Scope note
Designates publications about letters (correspondence).

User tips
For published correspondence, use 'letters (form)'. 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

Broader terms
documents

Related terms
letters (form)
postcards

Subject category
19.03 LITERARY GENRES

Indexing history
For publications about letters indexed before 2006, see also letters (form).

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