Introduction : members of the kingdom of letters -- Angel Day's rhetoric for any learner in The English secretary (1586 and 1599) -- Feminine poetical letters : Michael Drayton's England's heroical epistles -- Letters of feminine friendship at the court of Henrietta Maria : Jacques du Bosque's The secretary of ladies -- Epistolary battles in the English Civil War : The kings cabinet opened -- Epistolary restoration : Margaret Cavendish's letters -- Conclusion : new republics of letters.
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