His posture as the bad boy of contemporary American letters is well rehearsed.
As a result, accounts of the congress are based on fragmentary records from contemporary letters and publications.
In a contemporary letter, he was described as a member of a landholder family of 400 years' standing.
It's hard to say where she fits in contemporary letters or even to what country she belongs.
Along the way, he has become a leading light of contemporary Canadian letters.
He has published almost a dozen novels, and is considered "one of the major figures of contemporary southern letters".
This seems to signal a terrible poverty of contemporary American letters.
No contemporary letters or diaries describe how Austen felt about this proposal.
Several incidents involving racial conflict stood out in his contemporary letters and memory.
She was, and is, more than a breath of fresh air in contemporary letters.
