Letter (from an online archive) (MLA)

Works cited entry

MLA-141

Oblinger, Maggie. Letter to Charlie Thomas, 31 Mar. 1895. Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912, Library of Congress / American Memory, memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ps:@field(DOCID+l306)#l3060001.

Explain

Cite as you would a work from a website, and give as much of the following information as is available.

  • Begin with the writer of the letter, the recipient, and the date of the letter.
  • Give the title of the website (the online archive), italicized; the publisher or sponsor of the site; and the URL.

NOTE: When a URL must be divided at the end of a line, break it before a period or a hyphen or after any other mark of punctuation. Do not insert a hyphen at the end of the line.

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