Lady Mary's literary reputation chiefly rests on 52 superb Turkish embassy letters, which she wrote after her return as the ambassador's wife in Constantinople, using her actual letters and journals as source material.
These characters are at once grotesque and credible, the more so in a brilliantly acted, late-60s production by Stewart Laing on a superb twin-level letter-box set of his own design.
He wrote this superb definition in a letter of July 1802.
It wasn't until his superb, low-budget love letter to Liverpool, Of Time and the City, became the unexpected toast of Cannes in 2008 that the skies started to brighten for our pre-eminent auteur.
And, as Simon Garfield relates in his superb elegy To the Letter (which is published by Canongate in October), the outposts of the Roman empire are still littered with the remains of the credit-card-sized wooden tablets that carried messages from one fort to another.
In the superb recent collection of the letters of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we find a memo dated January 29 , 1993
Hughes, who will turn 18 on May 2, has been accepted by Harvard, and letters from other superb Ivy League schools will arrive next week.
But that must not detract from the marvel of the letters themselves, the superb faith that can exist between two unimportant, "superfluous" human beings.
A superb compendium of contemporary documents, diaries, letters, newspaper articles and narratives from the American Revolutionary War period.
