I'm late to the party. I was on a work trip and thought I'd have more time but couldn't even keep up with reading the thread....
I will add a book from the public domain and nominate
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. It is on a list of popular framed narrative novels (stories within stories) and is told through letters. That's how I am choosing to interpret the theme.
From Amazon:
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A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham, a young farmer, discovers her dark secrets. In her diary, Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol, and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled.
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