Letters from Lovran in the Correspondence of Vjekoslav Spinčić

Abstract

This article catalogues the items of correspondence (letters, postal cards, and telegrams) sent from Lovran to Vjekoslav Spinčić which are kept in the archival collection HR-HDA-819 (Personal papers of Vjekoslav Spinčić). The author lists the letters and selects ten letters from one author (Nikola Battestin), summarizing them and describing them in the sociolinguistic context of Austria-Hungary in the late-nineteenth century.

Keywords

• croatian language
• istria
• letter corpus
• lovran
• native-language literacy
• vjekoslav spinčić