This article reads Charlotte Brontë’s letters documenting her sister Emily experience of tuberculosis in late 1848, considering how the correspondence has cultivated a one-sided account Emily’s final months. Rereading analytically, I argue that differences between sisters articulates gravitate around implicit conception “good” consumptive, with resistance positioning unfairly as “bad” patient. ...

This article analyzes the correspondence exchanged between Josep Sabah, a teacher originally from Ottoman Empire, and leaders of Alliance Israélite Universelle Jewish Colonization Association, institutions that had sent him to Argentina found network schools in several towns province Entre Ríos, 1894 1922.
 In first place, we focus on contradictory ways through which this cultured Jew, edu...

My dear Foster Do you want me to go to the Society of Authors Dinner? I am steward & have taken my ticket – but as I canot hear a word that is said & there will be nothing to look at, I would gladly be let off – If necessary I could make a point of catching a cold on the 30 . Is Mr Leach going to publish his lecture on “Hardy Climbers & Creepers” They are just the things I want to know about. W...

My dear Foster I am none the worse for the ice-cellar & shall be to the fore at the D Committee tomorrow. I will read the Report & sign it if need be – though there really must be some fresh arrangement. Of course I have entire confidence in your judgement about the examination, but I have a mortal horror of putting my name to things I do not know of my own knowledge. Did you read the three Bis...

This contribution presents the collections of Classical archaeologist Wilhelm Klein (1850–1924), kept in Archive Charles University, which have recently become accessible to researchers. worked at German Charles–Ferdinand University (later University) 1886–1923. Surviving correspondence demonstrates this Prague professor’s involvement communication networks contemporary archaeologists and art c...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...