Part 3: Private letters

Use the links below to download the sources and accompanying material for the ideas in Part 3.

Resources

Idea 24: Lost in the post?

• Image: Letter to the editor of The Times about the Great Exhibition, 1851 (HO 45/3623)
• Transcript: Letter to the editor of The Times about the Great Exhibition, 1851 (HO 45/3623)

Idea 25: How to use a 17th-century letter

• Image: Letter addressed to Lord Monteagle, 1605 (SP 14/216/2)
• Transcript: Letter addressed to Lord Monteagle, 1605 (SP 14/216/2)
• Simplified Transcript: Letter addressed to Lord Monteagle, 1605 (SP 14/216/2)

Idea 26: Letter from the trenches

• Image: Page 1 – Letter from William Charles Davies (RAIL 253/516)
• Image: Page 2 – Letter from William Charles Davies (RAIL 253/516)
• Transcript: Letter from William Charles Davies (RAIL 253/516)
• Image: Photograph of Wiliam Charles Davies (RAIL 253/516)

Idea 27: His last letter

• Image: Letter from Dudley to Elizabeth I (SP 12/215/65)
• Simplified Transcript: Letter from Dudley to Elizabeth I (SP 12/215/65)

Idea 28: Tudor turning point in history?

• Image: Extract of letter from John Hawkins to Sir Francis Walsingham (SP 12/213 ff.164-5)
• Transcript: Extract of letter from John Hawkins to Sir Francis Walsingham (SP 12/213 ff.164-5)

Idea 29: Letters from history

• Image: Letter from Catherine Howard to Thomas Culpepper, 1541 (SP 1/167 f.14)
• Transcript: Letter from Catherine Howard to Thomas Culpepper, 1541 (SP 1/167 f.14)
• Simplified Transcript: Letter from Catherine Howard to Thomas Culpepper, 1541 (SP 1/167 f.14)

Idea 30: Spying on a spy

• Image: Noor Khan's Training Report (HS9/836/5)

Idea 31: A desperate plea

• Image: Page 1 – A letter sent by Princess Elizabeth to her sister Mary I (EXT 11/25)
• Image: Page 2 – A letter sent by Princess Elizabeth to her sister Mary I (EXT 11/25)
• Transcript: A letter sent by Princess Elizabeth to her sister Mary I (EXT 11/25)
• Simplified Transcript: A letter sent by Princess Elizabeth to her sister Mary I (EXT 11/25)